Looking For Alaska
Special 10th Anniversary Edition
John Green
First annotation on . Last on .
5 quotes
introduction
- I heard a psychologist say that Americans would organize their memories around that terrible day: before and after.Dec 16 2021 5:10PM
fifty-one days after
- And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”Dec 31 2021 12:56AM
- The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of sufferingMar 20 2022 11:19PM
- When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.Mar 20 2022 11:19PM
one hundred thirty-six days after
- 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.Mar 20 2022 11:20PM