When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

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

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.