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You get used to someone – start to like them, even – and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”
― Darkly Dreaming Dexter
― Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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