We all use the future to escape the present.

John Green

Stichwörter: looking-for-alaska



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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.

John Green

Stichwörter: humor looking-for-alaska



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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

John Green

Stichwörter: looking-for-alaska



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I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

John Green

Stichwörter: humor looking-for-alaska takumi strawberry-hill



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More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone
who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I
cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

John Green

Stichwörter: love dead looking-for-alaska



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You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.

John Green

Stichwörter: death looking-for-alaska perhaps



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Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.
'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked.
She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

Stichwörter: looking-for-alaska john-green



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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.

John Green

Stichwörter: looking-for-alaska john-green



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I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

John Green

Stichwörter: last-words looking-for-alaska john-green



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But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.

John Green

Stichwörter: sex looking-for-alaska cigarettes



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