John Green - Looking for Alaska (2005)

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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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You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

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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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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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"She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.
Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts."
"That's not any better!"

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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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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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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

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But even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

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