Book detail: Paper Towns is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
Set in the backdrop of a small Florida town, the story follows a young protagonist on a quest to find a missing person, intertwining personal growth and the mysteries of the past.
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“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
“The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.”
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”
“She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”
“All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.”
“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
“It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.”
“Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.”
“We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
“Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.”