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Quotes [Paper Town]

1. “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” 

2. “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” 

3. “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.” 

4. “The town was paper, but the memories were not.” 

5. “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

6. “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”

7. “I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.” 

8. “When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.” 

9. “Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.” 

10. “It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.” 

11. “You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. I mean, I could hate you for being massively unpunctual and for never being interested in anything other than Margo Roth Spiegelman, and for, like, never asking me about how it's going with my girlfriend - but I don't give a shit, man, because you're you. My parents have a shit ton of black Santas, but that's okay. They're them. I'm too obsessed with a reference website to answer my phone sometimes when my friends call, or my girlfriend. That's okay, too. That's me. You like me anyway. And I like you. You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.” 

12. “Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”

13. “The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.” 

14. “As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” 

15. “Maybe all the strings inside him broke.” 

16. “And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.”

17. “As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.” 

18. “Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.” 

19. “I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” 

20. “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

21. “Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.” 

22. “Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

23. “Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

24. “I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”

25. “Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.” 

26. “At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.” 

27. “The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.” 

28. “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.” 

29. “The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”

30. “Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.” 

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READ PAPER TOWNS BY JOHN GREEN. GREAT STORY. :)