"A paper town for a paper girl"
— John Green

"Off with their heads!"
— Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."
— Emily Dickinson

"Because death could not stop for me I kindly stop for him."
— Emily Dickinson

"Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it."
— Emily Dickinson

"The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold."
— J.K. Rowling

"There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!"
— J.K. Rowling

"You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls."
— J.K. Rowling

"what's in a name? that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell [just] as sweet."
— William Shakespeare

"whomever said sunshine is happiness has obviously never danced in the rain!"
— I Dont Remember

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; It's about learning to dance in the rain!"
— Jean E. Howard

"Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained."
— Sherman Alexie

""No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)""
— Rachael Cohn; David Levithan

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
— Terry Pratchett (Sourcery)

"If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental."
— Angelina Jolie

"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"The town was paper, but the memories were not."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.""
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"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."
— John Green

"I've lived here for 18 years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"What is an 'instant death' anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is an instant? Nothing is instant."
— John Greene

""Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.""
— John Green

"I thought you hung the moon."
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"thinking that if people were rain. i was drizzle and she was hurricane."
— John Green

"Everything that comes together falls apart."
— John Green

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."
— John Green

"Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! "
— Hergé (The Shooting Star)

"It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!"
— Hergé (The Shooting Star)

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

"To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

"The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
— Pablo Picasso

"You are my sweetest downfall. I loved you first, I loved you first."
— Regina Spektor

"Sometimes i'd stand by the royal walls.
The sky would be so big that it broke my soul."
— Regina Spektor

"You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath"
— Regina Spektor

"This is how it works:
You're young until you're not,
You love until you don't,
You try until you can't;
You laugh until you cry,
You cry until you laugh,
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath...
No, this is how it works:
You peer inside yourself,
You take the things you like,
And try to love the things you took;
And then you take that love you made,
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart,
Pumping someone else's blood --
And walking arm in arm,
You hope it don't get harmed,
But even if it does
You just do it all again..."
— Regina Spektor

"Born of a sign that carries water
But in a month that brings just ice
I'm not a skillful water carrier
But I've learned to carry love,
learned to carry love
--Aquarius"
— Regina Spektor

"...And we all must breathe until our dying breath."
— Regina Spektor

"But one of these days, you'll heart will just stop ticking. And they sort of just won't find you until your cubicle is reeking...and we keep on listening to those freaks on the TV, who claim they will save us, but want to enslave us."
— Regina Spektor