

“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

“Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
― Walk Two Moons
― Walk Two Moons

“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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