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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape 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.

— John Green Looking for Alaska (2005)

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He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped.

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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

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He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

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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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