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On March 23, 1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: 'Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation--in short, to remain a memory.

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.

~John Green, Looking For Alaska

@petrapark3r read up on Extrasensory Perception to understand more about things like these. :)

@ShayThatBae is a bish, change my mind.

Thank you, Cyberdyne and Rupin. Great post! 👍🏻

I've learned the hard way that the best thing to do is say nothing about what you're really thinking. If you say nothing, they'll assume you're thinking nothing, only what you let them see.

~Theodore Finch, All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.

~E. Lockhart, We were liars

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese

I
am
in
pieces.

~Theodore Finch, All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.

Apology accepted.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

~John Green, Looking For Alaska

You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.

@Zzz-24 the latter

”Sometimes, though, you want to remember every minute you spent with someone. You want to remember even the most mundane moments. You wish you had inhabited them more completely, and marked them with yourself more indelibly - not in spite of their ordinariness, but because of it. But you only discover this when it's too late.”

~Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days.

The cardinal was dead either way, whether he came inside or not. Maybe he knew it, and maybe that's why he decided to crash into the glass a little harder than normal that day.

~Theodore Finch, All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven.

@Addicted4life no.

“He's so empty. They tried to stitch him back together, but too much already fell out. Stars and buttons and caramel truffles.”

― C.G. Drews, The Boy Who Steals Houses