“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
“I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town.”
“All over town kids lay awake & wondered: Am I smart enough, pretty enough, strong enough, tall enough? If our fears were smoke, the town would be covered night & day by an inky pall.”
“A Paper Town is a town that's got a paper mill on it.”
“Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.”
“An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.”