"I used to be afraid of dying. Now I am afraid of not living. There's a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes"(79).
I believe this quote is saying that you cannot base your life on plans. Some plans never work out and it is easier to just go with the flow. When you make plans and they fall through it causes a great deal of pain. This planning can also distract you from life, you could end up focused on planning and sticking to a schedule and never actually live your life. Life is about mistakes and bumps in the road, we need to accept that and just go with it.
”So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don’t have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray”(114).
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”Don Quixote - the famous literary madman - fought windmills. People think he saw giants when he looked at them, but those of us who've been there know the truth. He saw windmills, just like everyone else - but he believed they were giants. The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe”(261).
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”The things I feel cannot be put into words, or if they can, they are in no language anyone can understand. My emotions are talking in tongues”(225).
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