The best Quotes from Paper Towns

I'm Starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

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'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

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.

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

There will come a time where all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings who remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and discovered will be forgotten. And all of this will have been for nothing. Maybe that time is coming soon, and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collaps of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced conciousness and there will be a time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivon worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always'.

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

You can love someone so much... but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

I've always liked quiet people. You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

Because you simply cannot draw these things out for ever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

"Why are you wearing a fox hat?"
"Because no one can catch the motherf*cking fox."

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

The past is like a broken mirror, as you piece it together you cut yourself. Your image keeps shifting and you change with it.

Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shows can change your life.

I wear heartbreak like six-inch heels: Hurts like hell, but I'll make it look beautiful.

Carrie: "Something Iike 85% aren't circumcised."
Charlotte: "Great, now they're taking over the world!"
Carrie: "It's a penis, not Godzilla."

Of course it's hard to understand women...
if you think with your dick instead of your heart.

I'm in love with cities I have never been to and with people I have never met.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

Come in close, because the more you think you see, the easier it'll be to fool you.

If you want the rainbow you have to deal with the rain.

Funerals, I've decided, are not for the dead. They are for the living.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.