Flimsy Paper Quotes

#1. I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else.

John Green

#2. You who will emerge from the flood
In which we have gone under
Remember
When you speak of our failings
The dark time too
Which you have escaped

Bertolt Brecht

#3. Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.

Nathaniel Cotton

#4. They fought to preserve their identity. Their political identity, their personal identity. Dr.

Harper Lee

#5. It's funny because you always think a real friendship can weather any storm, but human relationships can be as flimsy as paper boats in a tsunami."
~ page 97

Steven Parlato

#6. She called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

John Green

#7. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

E.B. White

#8. I'm a United States senator. I'm not an Israeli senator.

Chuck Hagel

#9. She kind of hates Orlando; she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy. I think she just wanted a vacation from that.

John Green

#10. What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

Colson Whitehead

#11. When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same.

Steph Campbell

#12. I feel like I'm being eaten from the inside out and I can't tell anyone what's going on ...

Kevin Powers