Quentin Jacobsen Quotes

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

“Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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

“Oh no you didn't," Radar says when I show him why we're laughing. "Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt.”
― 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

“I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no on to hear: I missed her I missed her I missed her I miss her.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.”
― 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

“And even though it was ridiculously childish, in the end I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“People I don't know die all the time. If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Auf Reisen, stelle ich fest, lernt man eine Menge über sich selbst.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Vielleicht ist es mehr so, wie d vorher gesagt hast, dass wir Risse bekommen. Am Anfang sind wir alle wasserdicht, aber dann passieren Dinge [...].Und so bekommen wir Risse.”
― John Green, Paper Towns