I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do. I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
John GreenThe Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.
John GreenRight. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.
John GreenSuffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
John GreenTags: looking-for-alaska
Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied by the last words of the already dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
John GreenTags: the-labyrinth great-perhaps the-great-perhaps the-labyrinth-of-suffering
And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.
John GreenWhen she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And that could have happened to me, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it in spite of having lost her.
John GreenTags: alaska-young
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
John GreenThere comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
John GreenTags: inspirational death
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
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