“I couldn’t figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. I mean, I could hate you for being massively… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54)” — John Green Copy Share Image
“You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While… — John Green Copy Share Image
To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have… — John Green Copy Share Image
But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Hey, I notice you look like you're coming down off a meth binge and smell vaguely of algae. Were you perchance dancing… — John Green Copy Share Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so… — John Green Copy Share Image
“there she is, and I am watching her through Plexiglas, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when… — John Green Copy Share Image
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green Copy Share Image
“In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you… — John Green Copy Share Image
My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said. — John Green Copy Share Image
“You were with Margo Roth Spiegelman last night? At THREE A.M.? I nodded. Alone? I nodded. Oh my God, if you hooked… — John Green Copy Share Image
And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't.… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty. She… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then… — John Green Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image