John Green, Paper Towns

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

"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."

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

"Imagine others complexly."

"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."

"Imagine others complexly."

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

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

"Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old."

"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."

"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!"

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

"Poetry is just so emo."he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul."

"Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?"

"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."

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

"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."

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

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

"Imagine others complexly."