Paula
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“I'll see you then. And I'll write in the meantime," I say.
"Yes," she says without turning around, her voice thickk. "I'll write you, too."
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”
― Paper Towns
"Yes," she says without turning around, her voice thickk. "I'll write you, too."
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”
― Paper Towns
“Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school.
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― Paper Towns
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― Paper Towns
“I couldn’t figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass and all the different ways you could se it made me think about all the ways I’d seen and mis-seen Margo. There was no shortage of ways to see her. I’d been focused on what had become of her, but now with my head trying to understand the multiplicity of grass and her smell from the blanket still in my throat, I realized that the most important question was who I was looking for. If “What is the grass?” has such a complicated answer, I thought, so, too, must “Who is Margo Roth Spiegelman?” Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room enough in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Margos.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“But it was the last string. It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left, and every paper girl needs at least one string.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
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