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Paper Towns QUOTES

Paper Towns QUOTES

1 " Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will "

― John Green , Paper Towns

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

― John Green , Paper Towns

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

― John Green , Paper Towns

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

― John Green , Paper Towns

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

― John Green , Paper Towns

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

― John Green , Paper Towns

7 " Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

8 " 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. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

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

― John Green , Paper Towns

10 " You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

11 " 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 "

― John Green , Paper Towns

12 " Imagine others complexly. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

13 " All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

14 " 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 get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in places. And I mean, yeah once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And its only that time that we see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. 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. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

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

― John Green , Paper Towns

16 " 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. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

17 " 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 hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

18 " 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 passed since I last looked at the clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight for the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years. "

― John Green , Paper Towns

19 " pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! "

― John Green , Paper Towns

20 " You were with Margo Roth Spiegelman last night? At THREE A.M.? I nodded. Alone? I nodded. Oh my God, if you hooked up with her, you have to tell me every single thing that happened. You have to write me a term paper on the look and feel of Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts. Thrity pages, minimum! I want you to do a photo-realistic pencil drawing. A sculpture would also be acceptable. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy. Personally, I think at least one of the words should be buhbuhbuhbuh. "

― John Green , Paper Towns