John Green, Paper Towns

"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."

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

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

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

"Imagine others complexly."

"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."

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

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

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

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

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

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

"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!"

"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 far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly."

"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."

"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."