Labarynths

I've recently started a book called Looking For Alaska, and found it was pretty good. it was funny and smart. Though there's really nothing too specific that i would point about that i thought was especially memorable about what Ive been through so far in it. . .
So the main character Miles starts out as a total loser in his old school. And suddenly he is shipped off to boarding school where he immediately befriends some hard core pranksters and gets himself into smoking and drinking and all this type of teen angst stuff.
the reason i think this book is so successful though, is because there's this flawless balance between sophisticated, visionary philosophical and like teen drama with a little twist of suspense. Having that balance makes the book a little bit more interesting and it gives it a backbone ish moral behind it that makes the book meaningful. (i.e.)Not just some forth grade chapter book about a guys first crush or whatnot. it makes it relatable to a variety of audiences and it makes you take the book a little more seriously.

"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through times eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going."

I feel like this line from the book was a direct authors intrusion. that this was the bowels of authors writing and it was what he wanted to get across to the reader. I mean, for deity! He's in a boarding school, like a thousand miles away from his parents and he starts making all these decisions for himself and he is truly out on his own for the first time. His best friend was eight when she realized this, when her mother was having an anurisum and wasn't able to make things better. sooth the crying (eight year) old best friend, and make her pain go away, like the (eight year old) best friend's mother was supposed to do in her eyes.
(trying to sustain from making this a spoiler)

I am really only like half way through the book, and a couple flimsy pages from "AFTER" and I'm really on the edge of my seat.
and scared out of my mind
and sad that his life will be changed forever, because i don't want it to.
oh well.