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“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNS
AND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is alive. We don’t suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you’re imagining a world in which you can become irreparably broken. If you choose the grass, you’re saying that we are all infinitely interconnected, that we can use these root systems not only to understand one another but to become one another. The metaphors have implications. Do you know what I mean?”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."

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.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“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.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“What about the rest of your life?"
She shrugged. "What about it?"
"Aren't you worried about, like, forever?"
"Forever is composed of nows," she says.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“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.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.
How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“That tastes like hope feels.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“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 by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?”
― John Green, Paper Towns