"That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."
"Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home."
"I know so many last words. But I will never know hers."
"She loved mysteries so much, that she became one."
"We all use the future to escape the present."
"I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what."
"When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did."
"I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side."
"After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it."
"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."
"So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me. And the accicide, the student, would never be anything else, and I was left to ask, Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I assist your willful self-destruction? Because they are different crimes, and I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go."
"In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,"
"Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die."
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive"
"I GO TO SEEK A GREAT PERHAPS "
