This one's for Alaska Young!
If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.
I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive
The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. A...
How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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 d...
Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river.
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are.