“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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 hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“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
“There is your truth and there is my truth...as for the universal truth it does not exist.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“the center of attention (that might be an understatement). I can be extremely chatty. I find humans delightful and strangers irresistible. I frequently interject in other people’s conversations. (You know that person on the plane”
― Amateur: An inexpert, inexperienced, unauthoritative, enamored view of life.
― Amateur: An inexpert, inexperienced, unauthoritative, enamored view of life.
“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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