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101 " This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again. "
― John Green , Paper Towns
102 " Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists. "
103 " Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person. "
104 " Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. "
105 " We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time "
106 " 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. "
107 " It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it. "
108 " Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn't die? "
109 " I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. "
110 " My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever. "
111 " High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change. "
112 " I spy with my little eye a great story. "
113 " We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl. "
114 " I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again. "
115 " I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. "
116 " A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window. "
117 " At least I carpe'd that one diem. "
118 " Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem. "
119 " Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. "
120 " How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people. "