Top Paper Towns Quotes

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

It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)

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...

But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or...

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid.

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?

But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.''Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get...

I spy with my little eye a great story.

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

From the front Rdar announces, Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?Whenever I eat a GoFast bar, Ben says, I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to...

You don't give a shit if people like you.

So maybe we won’t ever win the lottery, or marry royalty, or make that last second shot. That doesn’t mean we won’t have amazing adventures, meet exceptional people, and make indelible memories. The t...

Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is h...

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be...

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.

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. S...

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself.The last time I was this scared, Radar says, I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.

I am thinking that I don't want this to happen. I don't want to die. I don't want my friends to die. And to be honest, as the time slows down and my hands are in the air, I am afforded the chance to t...