“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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