You spend 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.
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| — | Alaska Young - Looking for Alaska (John Green) |
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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| — | Looking for Alaska-John Green (via mymodestproposal) |
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.
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| — | John Green (via winsome-words) |
