That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

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

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.