“In town for shows this weekend: Skrillex and Rammstein! If I were a bit younger I would go to both, but I think I am too old for the hopped-up young crowd and the pyrotechnics. Sad….”

hahah, he’s seriously the coolest, most timid old man. 

Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us great than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

Okay, so one of the first things that I’ve done with my summer thus far, is finish Looking for Alaska. I know what you’re thinking, whatthefuckthefirstthingyoudidwasread?!?!? but it was an amazing book. I decided to read it because of that one quote that I saw floating around Tumblr a while back. This one:

Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. 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 those 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 drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Not only because it was pretty very cute, but also because any character that thinks as different and complex as that, is interesting in my book (ha ha). Now, I’ve read a lot of books, and I think that John Green did an excellent job with this novel. Miles/Pudge is an interesting character and I’d honestly love to have a friend like him because there aren’t a great deal of people that are fascinated by last words and the crooked heart of a crazy but broken girl. 

It was also written in a before and after type of way, which is how most of us think. There was some big event, like graduating or someone important leaving, and all the small things that happened in your life are now just before graduating/so-and-so leaving or after graduating/so-and-so leaving. Green writing it this way makes it seem like it could be all the more real. 

I think out of everything, from the little romance that Pudge had for Alaska or all the first experiences that he has when he attends Culver Creek, I like the last words and the events in the book that made them important. “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” and “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” We all are thrown into the labyrinth at birth, and we take wrong turns and get lost in the maze, but we must believe in the Great Perhaps to continue on.