There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
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| — | John Green, Looking for Alaska (via 4mbivalent) |
God, ‘I love you’ really is the gateway drug of breaking up. Saying ‘I love you ’ while walking across the dorm circle inevitably leads to saying ‘I love you’ while you’re doing it. So I just bolted.
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| — | the Colonel. Looking for Alaska by John Green (via castergirl13) |
But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.
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| — | Looking for Alaska by John Green (via breathebetweenlines) |
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 a hurricane.
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| — | Looking For Alaska (via explossive) |
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
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| — | Looking for Alaska - John Green (via thedandelioninspring) |
I caught the edge of her scent: wet dirt and grass and cigarette smoke, and beneath that vestiges of vanilla-scented skin lotion. She flooded into my present, and only tact kept me from burying my face in the dirty laundry overfilling the hamper by her dresser.
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| — | Looking for Alaska - John Green (via thedandelioninspring) |
Straight and fast. Straight and fast. Out of the labyrinth.
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Looking for Alaska - John Green |
She had embodied the Great Perhaps—she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes.
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Looking for Alaska - John Green |
