9 Quotes Tagged: looking-for-alaska

"What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous."

I poured my soul into the dust by loving a man who was soon to die, as if he would live forever.

i go to seek the great perhaps

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not 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.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

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