(Journal #1) My Favourite Quote

"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken"(p.221)

No matter how torn up of broken we may feel, we can always be repaired. This quote is significant to the novel because Alaska was very self destructive and she would not look to others to help "repair" her. Without working to build her back up again, she kept breaking until she became too fragile to function. While she may have been falling apart she did not ever break beyond repair. This quote is ironic because in the story it is mentioned that “Everything that comes together falls apart”(p.197) but just because something has fallen apart doesn't mean you can’t repair it. This is a very helpful quote to live with because no matter how crushed or defeated things may seem at the moment, there will always be someone to repair you. If you were to take a piece of paper and shred it into a billion pieces, sure it might be hard, but it is not impossible to fit the pieces back together and have it be a paper again. But, although it may be a paper again, but the paper will have many scars and cuts on it, meaning that you must be extra cautious and careful that it does not fall apart again. As long as know that we can never be irreparably broken, it will be more difficult for up to break in the first place. We are all built to recover, and while we may break we won’t burn.