12 quotes
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
Paper Towns (2008)
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
Paper Towns (2008)
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
Paper Towns (2008)
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
Paper Towns (2008)
"That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste."
Paper Towns (2008)
Lacey takes the bar from me and reluctantly bites into it. She has to close her eyes to hide the orgasmic pleasure inherent in GoFast-tasting. "Oh. My. God. That tastes like hope feels."
Paper Towns (2008)
Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
Paper Towns (2008)
I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.
Paper Towns (2008)
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
Paper Towns (2008)
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.
Paper Towns (2008)
The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make—was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
Paper Towns (2008)
"Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added.
Paper Towns (2008)