Everything looks uglier close up.
John Green, Paper Towns.
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing i...”
“I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.”
“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”
“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”
“What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows," she says.”
“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”
“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”
“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”
“If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself”
“Wealth mostly ignored the real reality.”
“...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.”