Paper Towns

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 bu...”

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

“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.”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the h...”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? Ther...”

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

“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being amazed that only a few minutes had passe...”

“Imagine others complexly.”

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

“Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t ge...”