We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns