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

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.