John Green, Paper Towns Quotes

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

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.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

Imagine others complexly.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

if you don't believe, nothing ever happens at all.

The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies - Q

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

Big, ugly homes for big, ugly people, ' I told Margo as we pulled into Casavilla.'No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me a favor and shoot me.

My heart is really pounding, " I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows, " she says.

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

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.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?

There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.