Paper Towns Quotes

Margo It’s a shame, don’t you think? All those strings inside him broke.

Quentin Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came after, I could never stop thinking… maybe she loved them so much… she became one.

Ben (Hears a noise) Bro, can we go?

Quentin What if it’s Margo?

Ben What if it’s literally anything else?

Margo Roth Spiegelman Okay, you see this? This is your comfort zone. It’s this big, Quentin. All the things that you want in the world are way out there.

Quentin Jacobsen What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person. Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventurer. She was not some fine, precious thing. She was a girl. It took me a long time to realize how wrong I was.

Quentin Interesting capitalization.

Margo Yeah, I’m a big believer in random capitalization. The rules are so unfair to the letters in the middle.

Margo Roth Spiegelman You have to get lost before you find yourself.

Margo Roth Spiegelman All those paper houses and paper streets and… And the people, too. I’ve lived here 11 years… and I’ve never come across anyone that cares about anything that matters.