Top 50 John Green Margo Quotes
#1. Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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#2. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)
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#3. I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me.
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#5. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
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#6. Here is Margo Roth Spiegelman, five feet away from me, her lips chapped to cracking, makeup-less, dirt in her fingernails, her eyes silent. I've never seen her eyes dead like that, but then again, maybe I've never seen her eyes before.
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#7. Radar half raised his hand. I dutifully called on him. Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.
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#8. Margo was not a miracle.She was not an adventure.She was not a fine and precious thing.She was just a girl.
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#9. And then Margo proceeded to lie. "He's actually my cousin," she said. Then she sidled up to me, out her hand aroud my waste so that I could feel each of her fingers taut against my hip bone, and she added, "And my lover.
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#10. She loved so much misteries tha she became one
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#11. We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.
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#12. Hey, I notice you look like you're coming down off a meth binge and smell vaguely of algae. Were you perchance dancing with a snakebit Margo Roth Spiegelman a couple of hours ago?
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#13. Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)
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#14. Forever is composed of nows," she says. I have nothing to say to that; I am just chewing through it when Margo says, "Emily Dickinson. Like I said, I'm doing a lot of reading.
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#15. A Margo for each of us
and each more mirror than window.
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#16. Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.
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#17. I'm so pissed at her. For ... for, I don't know. Not being the Margo I had expected her to be.
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#18. But there she is, and I am watching her through the Plexiglas, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two
this girl who was an idea that I loved.
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#19. It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big.
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#20. All those poeple living in their paper houses, burning they paper future to stay warm. All the paper kids, drinking paper beer some bum bought for them at the paper convienience store ... All this things paper-thin and paper-frail.
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#21. But her shoulder was against my arm, and the backs of our hands were touching, and although I was not looking at Margo, pressing myself against the glass felt almost like pressing myself against her.
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#22. We were walking away from the car together when Margo reached down for my hand,laced her fingers in mine,and squeezed.I squeezed back and then glanced at her.She nodded her head solemnly,and I nodded back,and then she let go of my hand.
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#23. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
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#24. Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time
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#25. For so long, I hadn't really heard Margo - I'd seen her screaming and thought her laughing - that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her.
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#26. Everything's uglier close up -Margo Roth Spiegelman
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#27. Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
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#28. Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
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#29. The fundamental mistake I had always made ... was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. (pg. 199)
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#30. Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out y the roots. But you can't do that until your life grown roots.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Forever is composed of nows. - Margo Roth Spiegelman
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#33. That night,I lay on my side,staring out the window into the invisible world outside.I kept trying to fall asleep,but then my eyes would dart open,just to check.I couldn't help but hope that Margo Roth Spiegelman would return to my window and drag my tired ass through one more night I'd never forget.
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#34. That doesn't sound like my Margo, she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.
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#35. 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 are both ninjas.
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#36. I stopped at a stop sign at the end of the street, and Margo said, "What the hell? Go go go go go," and I said, "Oh, right," because I had forgotten that I was throwing caution to the wind and everything.
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#37. I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no on to hear: I missed her I missed her I missed her I miss her.
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#38. curvy." I liked Lacey, but I saw Margo's
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#39. To what do I owe the pleasure?' I asked. Margo and I were still friendly, I guess, but we weren't meet-in-the-dead-of-night-wearing-black-face-paint friendly. She had friends for that, I'm sure. I just wasn't among them.
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#40. Margo says, I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.
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#41. I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.
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#42. When we sat down, Lacey started reading "Song of Myself," and she agreed that none of it sounded like anything and certainly none of it sounded like Margo. We still had no idea what, if anything, Margo was trying to say. She gave the book back to me, and they started talking about prom again.
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#43. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
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#44. I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God has ever created.
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#45. Oh, bullshit. You didn't come here to make sure I was okay. You came here because you wanted to save poor little Margo from her troubled little self, so that I would be oh-so-thankful to my knight in shining armour
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#46. Everything's uglier up close.
Not you.
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#47. Margo herself was - at least part of the time - very unMargo
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#48. In the end,the rats didn't matter,not really,because I was in a place where Margo had been alive.I was in a place that saw her after I did,and the warmth of that made the minimall almost confortable.
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#49. As I took those two steps back, Margo took two equally small and quiet steps forward.
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#50. 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 can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
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