John Green, Paper Towns

Quotes

• “Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds,"I added. Radar...”
• “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 jus...”
• “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 th...”
• “As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongu...”
• “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like pickin...”
• “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. ...”
• “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 unint...”
• “What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is co...”
• “I mean, we're ninjas.""Well maybe you're a ninja,"I said"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja,"Margo said, "but we a...”
• “It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently mis...”
• “Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?”
• “Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
• “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
• “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
• “Poetry is just so emo."he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
• “You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”
• “Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”
• “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
• “I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
• “I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.”
• “As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
• “I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”
• “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
• “The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
• “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
• “Imagine others complexly.”