Looking for Alaska

Zitate

"She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'You all smoke to enoy it. I smoke to die.' "

"You spent your whole life stuck in the Labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future  to escape the present."

"'We're all going' MC Kinley said to his wife, and we sure are. There's your Labyrinth of suffering. Wer are all going. Find your way out of that maze."

"And 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 the 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 a drizzle and she was a hurricane."

"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."

"What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person."

Eines der schönsten Bücher das ich je gelesen habe, ernsthaft.