65 Paper Towns Quotes by John Green

Paper Towns is a young adult book written by John Green that was published on October 16, 2008 by Dutton Books.

The story follows the protagonist, Quentin “Q” Jacobsen, as he grows up and searches for Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and childhood love.

Here are some of the picked quotes from Paper Towns novel.

Paper Towns Quotes by John Green

“The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“At least I carpe’d that one diem.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn’t planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“It was nice – in the dark and the quiet… and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

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Quotes from Paper Towns

“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn’t quite allow herself to disappear for good.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you can smell them and see them up close…” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

Best Paper Towns Quotes by John Green

“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I don’t know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

Famous Paper Towns Quotes

“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“A paper town for a paper girl.” ~ John Green, Paper Towns.

“The pleasure isn’t in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Isn’t it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship – nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll look back down and see that you floated away, too.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

Ultimate Paper Towns Quotes

“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Imagine others complexly.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn’t die?” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“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.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

Thought-Provoking Paper Towns Quotes

“I’ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“The fundamental mistake I had always made – and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make – was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It’s like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“It always seemed ridiculous to me that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

“Leaving feels too good, once you leave.” ~ John Green (quote from Paper Towns).

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