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Paper Towns quotes

John Green

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“It is so hard to leave — until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will” John Green, Paper Towns
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” John Green, Paper Towns
“if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” John Green, Paper Towns
“People are different when you can smell them and see them up close, you know?” John Green, Paper Towns
“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” John Green, Paper Towns
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.” John Green, Paper Towns
“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Forever is composed of nows” John Green, Paper Towns
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.” John Green, Paper Towns
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.” John Green, Paper Towns
“The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.” John Green, Paper Towns
“But isn’t it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.” John Green, Paper Towns
“the pleasure isn’t in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.” John Green, Paper Towns
“What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.” John Green, Paper Towns
“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Every moment of your life is lived for the future — you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a...” John Green, Paper Towns
“I mean, 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.” John Green, Paper Towns
“maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.” John Green, Paper Towns
“It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” John Green, Paper Towns
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.” John Green, Paper Towns
“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.” John Green, Paper Towns

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