in the belly of the fish

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Charms in Paper Towns

Paper Towns by John Green, 305 pages

"People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?" [ This isn't a quote inside the script, it's in the beginning of the book.]

"We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous."

"I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to anyone how we feel."

"Someone who-- because no one thought she was a person-- had no one to talk to."

"I had seen. I had listened. But I had not yet become the wounded person."

"The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence."

"It's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way."

"Forever is composed of nows."

"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."