The Love of My Afterlife
Quotes from the Book
knowledge is better than ignorance, and it’s better to find out and embrace the truth even if that truth might not feel good.
...if you're only brave when you're happy then it's not bravery
Most people give up on what they want. They’ll come across the first little obstacle and they’ll give up, and then they’ll try to tear down the people they see doing what they felt like they couldn’t.
There's a part of it (love) that's, like, letting go. Like a sacrifice but in a good way. You trade a part of yourself for something that's even bigger than you, and it feels good but weird at the same time. It's totally worth it, though" -Terra
I asked her why doesn't she buy a nicer car and she said she doesn't need nice things, she just needs her own things, and I respect that" -Alex
Sometimes the clouds inside my head get big and gray and swirly and then I hurricane through my eyes. Except I don’t literally hurricane through my eyes—I don’t actually have a weather system in my head.
Maybe if you sleep where another person sleeps and do what that person does, then eventually you’ll start turning into that person.
I said, Of course I'm full of questions, how can I find out the truth about stuff if I do't ask questions, DUH!" -Alex
...maybe you can't really know, from the outside. Maybe only the people who are in it (love) can really know" -Terra
Maybe as soon as you love someone you're physically connected to them with a tube that's kind of like a leash, except it's made out of flesh and it grows out of your belly button and you call it a fleash" -Alex
He said that right now was the most important moment—how they reacted to the failure. They could either let it stop them or they could redouble their efforts, figure out what went wrong, and fix their mistakes so they can make the next try a success.
That's why I try to surround myself with people who ARE smart about other stuff, like you
A pesar de como se ven las cosas, hay que empezar a ser valiente
if a hall monitor tries to write you up for being late you can say, Take it up with my triceratops. I
But my hero also said that knowledge is better than ignorance, and it’s better to find out and embrace the truth even if that truth might not feel good.
Nostalgic is something people really don’t need anymore but still like to have around, like jukeboxes or roller skates or appendixes. Do you guys have appendixes?
What’s a social worker, is it someone whose job it is to go on Twitter? And
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A space-obsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s, Walk Two Moons, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan—named for his hero, the real-life astronomer. All he wants is to launch his golden iPod into space the way Carl Sagan (the man, not the dog) launched his Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. From Colorado to New Mexico, Las Vegas to L.A., Alex records a journey on his iPod to show other lifeforms what life on earth, his earth, is like. But his destination keeps changing. And the funny, lost, remarkable people he meets along the way can only partially prepare him for the secrets he'll uncover—from the truth about his long-dead dad to the fact that, for a
Book details
- First published
- 2017
- Author
- Jack Cheng
- Genre
- Children's
- Goodreads rating
- 4.04 (13k ratings)
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