#look

We all use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#present

Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. 'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked. She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #christmas

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#because #before #digging #end #end of the tunnel

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#came #destination #does #get #his

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what. ↗

— John Green

#alaska-young #fiction #looking-for-alaska #miles #fiction

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#flaws #looks #pretty #meaning

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#done #haven #looks #much #still

Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die. ↗

— John Green

#ya

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away ↗

— Reyna Hawk

#drama #looking-through-blind-eyes #romance #suspense #suspense

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#fiction #lewis-carroll #through-the-looking-glass #young-adult #young-adult-fiction