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In this special 10th anniversary edition of 'Looking For Alaska,' readers are treated to a reissue of the original novel that has become a modern classic. The story is set in a boarding school and follows the adventures of a group of teenagers, including the protagonist, as they navigate the challenges of adolescence. The novel delves into themes of friendship, love, and the search for identity, offering a poignant and humorous look at the complexities of teenage life.
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“The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.”
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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
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“He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.”
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“Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.”
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“The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.”
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“And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.”
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“And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.”
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“It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.”
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“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.”
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“How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.”
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“I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.”
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“Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
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“You live for pretentious metaphors.”
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“Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.”
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“We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”
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“there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is”
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“I have guts, just not when it counts.”
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“I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.”
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“The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.”
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“And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.”
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“Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.”
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“I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.”
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“I do love you and what else matters but that”
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“We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.”
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“But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”
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“There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.”
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“Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?”
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“And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
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“You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.”
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“I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.”
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“Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.”
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“It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.”
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“I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.”
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“So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.”
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“... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.”
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“And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.”
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“I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.”
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“You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.”
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“Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.”
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“That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.”
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“That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?”
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“Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.”
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“I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”
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“We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth”
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“Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.”
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“Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?”
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“It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.”
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“I’ve always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.”
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“Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.”
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“Night falls fast. Today is the past.”
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