135 quotes found
“This one's for Alaska Young!”
“You cant burn down a made-up place.”
“Night falls fast. Today is in the past.”
“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
“You gave me forever within the numbered days.”
“You can't just make me different and then leave”
“I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about 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 ...”
“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”
“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”
“I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about be...”
“It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge”
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that futu...”
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we ar...”
“Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion tha...”
“What the hell is that?" I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
“The Colonel led all the cheers.Cornbread!" he screamed.CHICKEN!" the crowd responded.Rice!"PEAS!"And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs."Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried.YOU'LL BE WORKIN...”
“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.”
“Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.”
“She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth.""Um, okay. So what is it?""Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about ...”
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
“We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.”
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
