Paper Towns (Novel) : Sentence Staters
"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
"I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”"
"It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste."
"Every moment of your life is lived for the future."
"I picked you. And then you picked me back."
"Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old."
"It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined."
"All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too."
"As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story."
"Maybe all the strings inside him/her broke."
"The town was paper, but the memories were not."
"That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty."
"You know your problem, _______? You keep expecting people not to be themselves."
"It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel."
"_______ always loved mysteries."
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will."
"At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too."
"IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS."
"I could never stop thinking that maybe she/he loved mysteries so much that she/he became one."
"Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start."
"“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors."
"As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative."
"You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually."
"And I wanted to tell her/him that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together."
"The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence."
"People are different when you can smell them and see them up close…"
"I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis."
"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again."
"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja."
"Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn't die?"
"My heart is really pounding."
"I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did."
"The last time I was this scared, I peed myself."
"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle."
"I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters."
"I spy with my little eye a great story."
"I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite."
"A _______ for each of us--and each more mirror than window."
"I.Just.Wanted.To.Save.My.Ass!"
"Forever is composed of nows."
"She/He had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own."
"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."
"That's how you know you're having fun."
"Everything's uglier up close."
"You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls."
"That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life."
"The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve."
"For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way."
"They were made my grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you."
"You're upsetting the Black Santas."
