Paper Town Quotes

#1. A Paper Town is a town that's got a paper mill on it.

John Green

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

John Green

#3. A paper town for a paper girl," she says.

John Green

#4. Looks like Madison Estates isn't going to get built; my husband and I bought property there, but someone called this week to say they're refunding us our deposit because they didn't presell enough houses to finance the project. Another paper town for KS!- Marge in Cawker, KS

John Green

#5. 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

#6. Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.

John Green

#7. It's a paper town.

John Green

#8. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

John Green

#9. A paper town for a paper girl.

John Green

#10. I don't have all these advisers, political advisers. I don't even talk to them because I'm not a slave to a campaign manager, and Trump isn't either.

Joe Arpaio

#11. Former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification.

Frank W. Abagnale

#12. The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

Sundar Pichai

#13. Hesia was right. The real test of person is whether they can see past the names and labels." His gaze was steady."I've seen you. You laugh, you fear, you cry, you love. You're as human as me, Na'Chi

Kylie Griffin

#14. The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

James Hansen

#15. God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

Jeremy Taylor

#16. She launched the airplane and it caught a current and circled down toward the town, like a promise of something good.

A.S. King

#17. And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I'd done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

John Green

#18. If it weren't for supplies, I'd never go back down to town. But a man has to do what a man has to do. Hard to live like a king without toilet paper.
Astamur

Ilona Andrews

#19. I've become good at finding crumbs of comfort. Sometimes they're all you have to eat.

Mark Lawrence

#20. Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.

Helen Gurley Brown

#21. The Echo was a rag specializing in yard sales, area sports, and town politics. The residents scanned those things, he supposed, but mostly bought the paper for the obituaries and Police Beat. Everybody liked to know which of their neighbors had died or been jailed.

Stephen King

#22. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

Terry Pratchett

#23. As the world stood on the brink of war in August 1914, the local paper of a small town in the west of Ireland took a stand: 'We give this solemn warning to Kaiser Wilhelm: The Skibbereen Eagle has its eye on you.

Robert Hutton

#24. In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

Nick Nolte

#25. The town was paper, but the memories were not.

John Green

#26. I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off on my white pants. On the level! It actually happened. Nobody bought a paper that day. They just followed me around over town and read the news on the seat of my pants.

Clark Gable

#27. It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Nebuchadnezzar. When I did find it, it was on a bottle of my wife's toilet water.

Harold Town

#28. A little instruction in the elements of chartography - a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map - would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

Mary Antin

#29. This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind.

Hilary Mantel

#30. A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget- but not himself.

Beryl Bainbridge

#31. The town was paper, but the memory was not.

John Green

#32. She loves mysteries that she became one.

John Green

#33. He smiled. "I bet the paper ran something about you once your hiring was confirmed. A new cop is big news in a small town. People were probably admonished to make you feel at home."
She shook her head with some amusement. "I would have felt more at home if they shot at me,.

Dana Marton

#34. If my mom sees you here, she'll ---"
"Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?

Jamie Farrell