#alas

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#always #doubt #ideal #same #varies

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life. ↗

— Dana Stabenow

#author #biographical-note #dana-stabenow #kate-shugak #liam-campbell

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#always #idealism #many #natural #outlets

they love their hair because they're not smart enough to love anything more interesting ↗

— John Green

#funny #hair #love #funny

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

I think she and I were talking about how much I adored skateboarding on the computer but how it would never even occur to me to try and step on a skateboard in real life, and then she said, 'Let's play Truth or Dare' and then you fucked her." "Wait, you fucked her? In front of the Colonel?" Takumi cried. "I didn't fuck her. ↗

— John Green

#pudge #takumi #the-colonel #life

But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be. ↗

— John Green

#love

If people were rain i was a drizzle and she was a hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#drizzle #hurricane #lookin-for-alaska #love #miles

I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #rain

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #love #love