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81 " The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess. "
― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars
82 " I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side. "
― John Green , Looking for Alaska
83 " Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life. "
84 " Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. "
85 " I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living. "
86 " But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed "
87 " Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died. "
88 " And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains. "
89 " I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. "
90 " You can't just make me different and then leave "
91 " When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself. "
― John Green
92 " Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath. "
93 " Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. "
94 " What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead. "
95 " She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die "
96 " The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was. "
97 " Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust. "
98 " Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town. "
99 " Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself. "
100 " He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight. "