Top 72 John Green Paper Towns Quotes
#1. You're cute when you're confident. And less when you're not. -John Green, Paper Towns
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#2. Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)
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#3. 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.
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#4. All I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.
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#5. Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?
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#6. Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.
How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?
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#7. 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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#8. It's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
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#9. She loved so much misteries tha she became one
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#10. Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly
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#11. I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
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#12. I have never really thought of him as a person, either ... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn't feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
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#14. I spy with my little eye a great story.
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#15. And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.
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#16. It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.
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#17. The thing is that I do believe in college, and jobs, and maybe even babies one day. I believe in the future. Maybe it's a character flaw, but for me it is a congenital one.
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#18. 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)
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#19. Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll Grayson would be my maid/man of honor. Alaska and Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines and Let it Snow would be my best friends. In short- you can't go wrong with John Green. Ever.
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#20. I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.
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#21. Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time
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#22. How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.
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#23. Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn't die?
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#24. You don't give a shit if people like you.
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#25. 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 some action.
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#26. This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.- Paper Towns
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#27. But it was the last string. 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?
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#28. I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.
John Green
#29. 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 tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.
John Green
#30. 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 cared for.
John Green
#31. 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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#32. We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.
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#33. 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 mosquitoes.
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#34. Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.
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#35. A Margo for each of us
and each more mirror than window.
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#36. Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas.
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#38. On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band room and just talking.
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#39. At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
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#40. That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.
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#41. On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
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#42. I felt so detached from all this shit, all this high-school-is-ending-So-we-have-to-reveal-that-deep-down-we-all-love-everybody bullshit.
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#43. 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.
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#44. You will leave to the paper towns and never come back.
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#45. The town was paper, but the memory was not.
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#46. 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?
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#47. 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 trick is to notice before it's too late.
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#48. ALSO BY JOHN GREEN Looking for Alaska ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An Abundance of Katherines ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Paper Towns ... ... ... ... ... ... Will Grayson, Will Grayson WITH DAVID LEVITHAN
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#49. We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.
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#50. 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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#51. 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 neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!
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#52. Leaving feels too good, once you leave.
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#53. Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
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#54. I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. You're upsetting the black Santas.
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#60. I'd been in the dark so long I was still craving it.
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#61. You will do to the paper towns and you will never come back
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#62. It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.
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#63. Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.
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#64. I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid.
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#65. 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 imagined it.
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#66. A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.
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#67. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. ( ... ) But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it.
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#68. By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!
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#69. 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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#70. What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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#71. You're just a really loud, awkward ninja, but we are both ninjas.
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#72. 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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