For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

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

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

Some people have lives; some people have music.