104 Quotes About Looking-for-alaska

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,

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.

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

We all use the future to escape the present.

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

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

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