I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
Man liebt jemanden, der einen nicht lieben kann, weil unerwiderte Liebe viel besser zu überstehen ist, als Liebe, die zuerst erwidert wurde und dann nicht mehr.
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
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.
Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
[...] A lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.
Dein ganzes Leben steckst du in dem Labyrinth fest und denkst daran, wie du ihm eines Tages entfliehst, und wie geil dann alles wird. Und die Vorstellung von dieser Zukunft hält dich am Laufen, aber am Ende tust du es nie. Du hast die Zukunft einfach nur benutzt, um aus der Gegenwart zu fliehen.