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“Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It’s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It’s a paper town.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“As it happens, I am not gay even though there’s nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“May I have this dance?â€� and the girl would say, “You may.â€� Girls were not allowed to say no.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Know a word you don’t know,â€� Margo chanted. “I’M THE NEW QUEEN OF VOCABULARY! I’VE USURPED YOU!â€�
“Spell usurped,â€� I told her.”
― Paper Towns
“Spell usurped,â€� I told her.”
― Paper Towns
“No,â€� she answered laughing. “I’m not giving up my crown over usurped. You’ll have to do better.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“You just look cute and be that weird mix of innocent and confident, and we’ll be fine.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn’t planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together â€� but that seemed too cheesy to say, and anyway, she was standing up.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“I felt significantly more tired than I had back at 5:55, and I would have skipped school, except I had perfect attendance, and while I realized that perfect attendance is not particularly impressive or even necessarily admirable, I wanted to keep the streak alive.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“I was extraordinarily confused, because the one thing happening in my universe was Mr. Jiminez writing on the blackboard, and I couldn’t fathom how he could be both an auditory and a visual presence in my life.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“That night, I lay on my side, staring out the window into the invisible world outside. I kept trying to fall asleep, but then my eyes would dart open, just to check.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“I knew this trick. It was a psychology trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“But I think about the circles kid sometimes, because I can sort of understand him. I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“I set my alarm for the ungodly hours of six in the morning, and spent the next few hours trying in vain to fall asleep.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“I hold my forearm up to my nose so I can smell sweat and skin and anything but death.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“And for the first time all day, the three of us are looking not forward but at one another.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“And although I could understand each word of it, I couldn’t understand anything about it as a whole.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“The day passed as it always did â€� in slow motion, with a thousand plaintive glances at the clock.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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