“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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