252 Quotes About Paper-towns

A kiss before dying.

But I still wanted to do it with you; I still liked that idea of maybe being able to create in you at least an echo of the kick-ass hero of my little-kid story.

I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. And here’s the thing about it. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always have. And the worst thing is that I loved it, too. I cultivated it, you know.

Because it’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless 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 at.

My heart has been fluttering around my chest for so long now that this variety of intoxication almost seems sustainable – but only almost.

College expands your opportunities,” I say finally. “It doesn’t limit them.

But what’s the point of kissing her now, anyway? It won’t go anywhere. We are both staring at the cloudless sky. “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will,” she says.

But there are a thousand ways to look at it.