↠ Please watch in 720p or 1080p [HD] + headphones « Until I got here, my only friends were the last words of the already dead. Like William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot. But towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, « I want to go too ». With his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to his wife and spoke his last words, « We are all going. » And then Alaska had to go, because I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and we let her go and she slipped through our fingers. We will always live with things done and things left undone that day. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless. I thought at first that she was just dead, just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I still sometimes think that the afterlife is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. But here's what gives me hope. 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. There is something else entirely. There's a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because energy once created is never destroyed. And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her, to understand that anything in life is survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. So I know she forgives me just as I forgive her. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. We can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. I know so many last words, but I'll never know hers. I'll never know her thoughts in those last minutes. We'll never know if she left us on purpose. But the not knowing will not keep me from caring. Alaska's last words to me were: « To be continued. » And she was right. I must continue I choose the labyrinth, even if there is no way out, even if we're all going, even if everything falls apart. I will always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbour, with all my crooked heart. Thomas Edison's last words were, « It's very beautiful over there. » I don't know where « there » is But I believe it's somewhere. And I hope it's beautiful. »
12 years old me cried reading the book for the first time.
17 years old me cried again while reading the book again after the death of a friend.
nearly 20 years old me cried watching the series these past days.
the power this story holds…it’s incredible. of course i was excited to see what they did with the adaptation but i didn’t expect it to be that good and that faithful to the book.
this is such a simple video, i just put some of my favorites quotes and scenes together -especially in the end- but i really needed to edit this story (and you know that there might be some more videos about it to come)
by the way, thank you « looking for alaska » for giving me my inspiration back, i missed it this past few weeks.
as always, I’d love to know what you think!
𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙑𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙊𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙎𝙊𝙉𝙂 ;
- MissEleanirVane // we’ll take on the world [jacob & evie frye]
- truelove11689 // we’ll take on the world [robian]
- Cool Kids Squad / we’ll take on the world [multifandom]
- WonderTwinC // take on the world [multifandom]
𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙑𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙊𝙎 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙎 ;
- Julia // adore you [miles and alaska]
- zoe edits // to be continued [alaska young]
- nothingbutstardust // spirits [alaska young]
- Merty Meh // future holds [looking for alaska]
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