Looking for Alaska

Well, Hi Tixy..

You know I completed reading "Looking for Alaska" today. I read most of it yesterday. (I had nothing else to do frankly). Tell you, eyes were tired for staring at the screen for so long. Novels are saving me. :) Old flame returning :P haha

Well, I am sharing some beautiful lines I liked( there are more than I have mentioned). Though the one I found in google still remains one of my favourite even without the relevance in book.
This one-
"I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and 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.”

 Alaska- the girl who was caught in the labyrinth of suffering. Actually, we all are. Guilt takes a lot of life away from us. So does anger and gloom. "You don't understand me", says Alaska "I am a deeply unhappy person". And this "labyrinth of suffering" she writes on the last page of her book in answer to the way out question, "Straight and Fast". Ah.. so many times we hold on to edgy pieces of past for just before them we had lived the most beautiful moments.

While "Pudge" discusses his hostel life, his room and the new friends he made.. some wonderfully crazy ones.. Colonel, Alaska, Takumi and Lara.. , how the Eagle keeps an eye on them and how he was thankful that he slept in full clothes so that next morning when he woke up late, only shoes were to be put on. (Relatable:P) Indeed I owe my attendance this sem to Jay who made sure I attended atleast enough classes :P Thanks J! Sometimes, I remember I would ask her to go and that I am not coming. She would try to convince but she knew me,hence went to class a little jealous of my sleep (I know :P) But, again, she was caring enough to call from class that the teacher is not there yet, or come in 5 minutes .. And I would run like Roadrunner (Peep..PEEp) :D I know I was such a lazy person that hearing the sound of knock I would just open the door without even opening my eyes, without even pulling the door for the other person and talking with eyes closed :D Ah.. me.. Still, all my friends holded on to me :) and that's what matters.

Coming back to the novel, the way to come out of the labyrinth is not by ignoring it's presence but by acknowledging it. This is done by accepting that we do make mistakes by doing or not doing certain things. Forgiving is the way out. Forgive. We are greater than the sum of our parts. We are not just this body but also the bond we share with people.

Lastly Tix, as Pudge says about why he concludes by stating why it was important to him, let me quote the text  "Things never happened as I imagined... But, I know I am on my way to Great Perhaps!"

Keep Smiling and Keep reading ^_^

_Rashmi