Infinity? (Jul 2nd, 2011 9:54pm)

Soo  I was about to make a post about how the feeling of being "infinite" has come up in both Paper Towns and in Perks of Being a Wallflower. Going to get the exact quote from Paper Towns, I find an entire Nerdfighter forum topic about this exact thing.

"Radar revs the engine as if to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except his skinny legs are visibly, and his arms hug plastic bags. I can see the back of Lacey's legs beneath her dress, her calves tight in midstride. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy, Infinite." (254)

This quote also ties into the whole feeling infinite thing:

"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. 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. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."

— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

I'm m not a together enough writer to make all of this focused on one point..... food for thought I guess. :)