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Paper Towns
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"Paper Towns" Quotes

A boy embarks on a journey to find the enigmatic girl next door after she mysteriously disappears, discovering the complexities of human connection and the nature of identity along the way.

Quotes

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

John Green

identityhuman nature

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

John Green

memoriesperspective

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

self-awarenesscommunication

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

John Green

beautysuperficiality

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

perspectivehuman nature

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

John Green

adventurechange

I didn't need you, you idiot. I picked you.

John Green

loverelationships