![]() And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the zoo on a class trip. ![]() There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. 1131 quotes from Looking for Alaska: Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled.īut ultimately I do not believe that she was just matter. I still think that, sometimes, I think that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make the time in the labyrinth bearable. I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their homes with her, and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere. ![]() ![]() What was her - green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs - would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about her alot like that, like someone's meal. ![]()
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