252 Quotes About Paper-towns

That night, I lay on my side, staring out the window into the invisible world outside. I kept trying to fall asleep, but then my eyes would dart open, just to check.

I felt a flicker of disappointment.

I knew this trick. It was a psychology trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

Still, the mere idea of a plan appealed to me.

But I think about the circles kid sometimes, because I can sort of understand him. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

I set my alarm for the ungodly hours of six in the morning, and spent the next few hours trying in vain to fall asleep.

It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.

People I don’t know die all the damned time. If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I’d be crazier than a shithouse rat.

In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.