Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Looking For Alaska

Is it possible to like the last two pages of a book more than the rest of it? Because that's what happened with me and the book Looking For Alaska by John Greene.
"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 greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot fail."
"So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: 'It's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beatiful."
I don't understand half of it, but it sounds wonderful, or at least it does to me.
~~MP

1 comment:

paperxxflowers said...

I loved this book. It made me cry.

Your blog is cool :] Keep on blogging. And welcome to the blogging world.