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I still think that maybe the afterlife is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

John Green
Pain, Loss, Thinking
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

John Green
Change, Grief, Loss
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.162, Penguin

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

John Green
Loss, Tragedy, Finals
"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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