Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the l…

John Green
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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 (2015). Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition, p.169, Penguin
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