“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.'
'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.”
― Paper Towns
'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.”
― Paper Towns
“If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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