You simply cannot draw this things out forever. At some point, you just pull pff the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.-Miles Halter p.7
I Imagined the conversation:
"Hey. Is this your first year?"
"Yeah. Yeah. I'm from Florida."
"That's cool. So you're used to the heat."
"I woudn't be used to this heat if I were from Hades." -Miles Halter p.8
"So first day of summer, I'm in grand old Vine Station with this boy named Justin and we're at his house watching TV on the couch-and mind you, I'm already dating Jake-actually I'm still dating him, miraculously enough, but Justin is a friend of mine from when I was a kid and so we're watching TV and literally chatting about SATs or something, and Justin puts his arm around me and I think, 'Oh that's nice, we've been friends for so long and this is totally comfortable', and we're just chatting and then I'm in the middle of a sentence about analogies or something and like a hawk he reaches down and he honks my boob. HONK. A much-too-firm, two- to three-second HONK. And the first thing i thought was 'Okay, how do I extricate this claw from my boob before it leaves permanent marks?' and the second thing I thought was 'God, I can't wait to tell Takumi and the Colonel.'" -Alaska Young p.14
"'Damn it, How will i ever get out of this labyrinth!'" -(Simón Bolívar) Alaska Young p.19
"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? which is he trying to escape-the world or the end of it?" -Alaska Young p.19
"When you're walking at night, do you ever get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?"
"Yeah, totally."
"Run run run run run." -Alaska Young/Miles Halter p.21
