“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
“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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