People love to sleep, and yet they are so frightened of death. Bogdan has never understood it.
“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
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