I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
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Zum Autor"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."
"We are literally in the heart of Jesus,' he said.'I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.'Someone should tell Jesus,' I said. 'I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart."
"You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!"
"I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?"
"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about."
"I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?"