Paula
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“They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.”
― Asking For It
― Asking For It
“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
“The truth is that whenever I went up to the top of the SunTrust Building—including that last time with you—I didn’t really look down and think about how everything was made of paper. I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. And here’s the thing about it. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always have. And the worst thing is that I loved it, too. I cultivated it, you know? “Because it’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could ever have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: ‘You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Ich will zu der Luft werden, die Nicholas einatmet, zu seinem Blut, zu seinem Herzschlag, zu allem, ohne das er nicht mehr leben kann.”
― Die Mitte der Welt
― Die Mitte der Welt
“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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