Top Paper Towns Quotes

My heart is really pounding, I said.That's how you know you're having fun, Margo said.

Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)

Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's...

Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of...

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can af...

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)

Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

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 nec...

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard...

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we...

. . . I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.

Oh no you didn't, Radar says when I show him why we're laughing. Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt.

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.