“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. 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. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
tags: simon_bolivar-s_labyrinth
机器翻译，仅供参考：
“他走了，我没有时间告诉他我刚刚意识到的事情：我原谅了他，她原谅了我们，我们必须原谅才能在迷宫中生存。我们中有那么多人不得不忍受那一天所做的事情和未完成的事情。那些不顺利的事情，那些在当时看起来还不错的事情，因为我们看不到未来。如果我们能看到我们最小的行为所带来的一连串的后果就好了。但我们不能知道更好，除非知道更好是无用的。当我走回去把Takumi的纸条交给上校时，我发现我永远不会知道。我永远不会了解她，在最后的几分钟里，我也不会知道她是不是故意离开我们。但不知道的人不会让我不在乎，我会永远爱阿拉斯加的年轻人，爱我弯曲的邻居，爱我弯曲的心。”
―约翰·格林《寻找阿拉斯加》