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Looking for Alaska (2005)
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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
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Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
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The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.
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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.
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I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill. - Takumi
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Feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.
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I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
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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.
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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.
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You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.
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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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I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.
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God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.
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Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?
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Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
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You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
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And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.
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I said nothing—I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, listening quietly was my general social strategy
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But even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska
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There 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.
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No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?
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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. 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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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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August 24, 1977
(age 46)
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