Looking for Alaska by John Green is truly an astounding book. Here is my favorite section from the end of the book:

“…Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be... We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are.  We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations…But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

            The words from the quote were describing Miles’ new realization. Throughout the whole book Miles was searching for something more. He wanted to find the Great Perhaps, the way out of the labyrinth, and just the meaning of life itself. Those words were expressing that you can make it through any hardship as long as you have hope. Situations in life may change us and try to tear us down but in reality, we cannot be destroyed. He believes that people are more than just matter; and that there has to be a place for the greater parts of us.

This book is has so much depth to it that you can’t help but wonder some of the same things Miles does.