#looking

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. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #pudge #thought

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

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

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#help #i #just #like #looking

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #looking-back #past #path #symbols

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part. ↗

— Eric Bana

#i #look #looking #never #part

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing. ↗

— Eric Bana

#around #i #looking #next #next thing

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. ↗

— Martha Beck

#better #dating #every #good-looking #homely

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. ↗