Цитаты из книги Looking for Alaska

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

“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.”

YOU'RE MUCH BIGGER, BUT WE ARE SMARTER!

YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!”

Это все равно как если потеряешь очки, пойдешь в оптику, а тебе там скажут — во всем свете очков больше нет, придется тебе как-то жить без них.

Я развернул печенье и откусил. М-м-м... Сотни вкуснейших калорий в одном кусочке.

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a nostalgia.

"Meriwether Lewis's last words were, "I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die." I don't doubt that is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind."

• Miles "Pudge" Halter