Margo Roth Spiegelman Quotes

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“My heart is really pounding," I said.
"That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman.
And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.”
― John Green

“Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people too.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I hit at the dirt with my heels of my fists, and then pounded it again and again, the sand scattering around my hands until I was hitting the bare roots of the tree, and I kept it up, the pain shooting up through my palms and wrists. I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no one to hear: I missed her I missed her I missed her I miss her.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“But there she is, and I am watching her through the Plexiglas, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two--this girl who was an idea that I loved.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God has ever created.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never get struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Und inzwischen besteht das ganze Leben nur aus Zukunft. Jeden Augenblick deines Lebens lebst du für die Zukunft - du machst deinen Schulabschluss, damit du aufs College gehen kannst, damit du einen guten Job kriegst, damit du dir ein schickes Haus kaufen kannst, damit du deinen Kindern die Ausbildung finanzieren kannst, damit sie eine guten Job kriegen, damit sie sich ein schickes Haus kaufen können, damit sie ihren Kindern eine gute Ausbildung finanzieren können.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Ja. Ich bin eine große Verfechterin der spontanen Groß- und Kleinschreibung. Die gängigen Regeln der Groß- und Kleinschreibung sind unfair den kleinen Worten gegenüber.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Dieses Etwas, das tiefer liegt und geheimer ist. Es ist wie ein Riss tief in dir drin.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Nichts passiert so, wie man es sich vorstellt.”
― John Green, Paper Towns