John Green Towns Quotations

I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

A paper town for a paper girl.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back..

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

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

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.