John Green, Paper Towns

"Imagine others complexly."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite."

"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."

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

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

"Imagine others complexly."

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

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