Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
John Green
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I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
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But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
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You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
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Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
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Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
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I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.
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I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.
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The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
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Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
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Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.
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Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.
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