252 Quotes About Paper-towns

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness who's kinda bossy, then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.

No you don't", she answers, and she is right. She can see it in my face- I understand now that I can't be her and she can't be me. Maybe Whitman had a gift I don't have. But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else.

I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.

These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. (...) But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing; the pleasure is in planning it.

i'd been in the dark so long I was still craving it.

Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.

Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.