Kristina’s Reviews > Looking for Alaska > Status Update

We need never be hopeless, because we cannot be irreparably broken.

We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth.

“After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out—but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”

And that was it. She didn’t leave me enough to discover her, but she left me left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

“Don’t ever do anything like that again,” he said. “But, Lord, ‘subverting the patriarchal paradigm’—it’s like she wrote the speech.” He smiled and closed the door. (Loved this part so much I cried)

When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? Everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question.

But more than the noiselessness of everyone else was the silence where she should have been