“Thomas Edison's last words were, "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I know it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”

—  John Green , book Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 221
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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