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141 " Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good. "
― John Green , Paper Towns
142 " Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned; 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. "
143 " The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. "
144 " I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile. "
145 " É muito difícil ir embora - até você ir embora de fato. E então ir embora se torna simplesmente a coisa mais fácil do mundo. "
146 " You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable. "
147 " The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "
148 " That tastes like hope feels. "
149 " For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. "
150 " Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life." He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say. "
151 " Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you. "
152 " Leaving feels too good, once you leave. "
153 " 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. "
154 " Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas. "
155 " And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. "
156 " 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. "
157 " When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.. "
158 " Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt "
159 " It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big. "
160 " It is so hard to leave-until you leave. "