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Quotes from John Green, Paper Towns

Big, ugly homes for big, ugly people, ' I told Margo as we pulled into Casavilla.'No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me a favor and shoot me.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
if you don't believe, nothing ever happens at all.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly
~ John Green, Paper Towns
I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
~ John Green, Paper Towns
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Everything looks uglier close up.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Such was life that morning: 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." (pg. 18)
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Imagine others complexly.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
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.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
~ John Green, Paper Towns
People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?
~ John Green, Paper Towns
Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?
~ John Green, Paper Towns