I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.