“You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.”

“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”

“she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.”

“A Paper Town is a town that's got a paper mill on it.”

“A paper town for a paper girl.”

“It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”

“This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns”