“YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNSAND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK”

“Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.”

“Maybe that's the trick. You should never come back. Never go backwards. Never give the past that much hold over you.”

“Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.”

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.”

“If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”