John Green, Paper Towns

"I mean, we're ninjas.""Well maybe you're a ninja,"I said"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja,"Margo said, "but we are both ninjas."

"The town was paper, but the memories were not."

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

"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."

"What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows,"she says."

"Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis."

"pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!"

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

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

"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."

"Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro."

"As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story."

"Imagine others complexly."

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

"Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds,"I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force."

"I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is."

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

"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."