Margo Roth Spiegelman Quotes

• All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

  John Green

  Hipster, People, House

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.57, A&C Black

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• But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.

  John Green

  Florida, Doors, House

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.3, A&C Black

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• My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

  John Green

  Fun, Heart, Said

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.44, A&C Black

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• 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 live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

  John Green

  Senior, Baby, Home

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• ..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

  John Green

  Notebook, Girl, Believe

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• 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 eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.

  John Green

  Lonely, Divorce, Eye

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.50, A&C Black

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• What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

  John Green

  Life, Hipster, Believe

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

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• And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg, Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. And Great Britain. And the United States. And czarist Russia. Me, I'm Luxembourg. Just sitting around, tending sheep, and yodeling.

  John Green

  Rain, Russia, Sheep

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.59, A&C Black

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• To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

  John Green

  Thinking, House, Warfare

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.226, A&C Black

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• At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

  John Green

  Life, Hipster, Sky

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.151, A&C Black

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• I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

  John Green

  Years, Who Cares, Paper

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.58, A&C Black

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• 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

  Fake, Paper, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

  John Green

  Paper, Towns, Broke

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.71, A&C Black

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• At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

  John Green

  Dawn, Tonight, Good Times

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.70, A&C Black

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

  John Green

  Hipster, Towns, Unfair

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.236, A&C Black

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• She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

  John Green

  Towns, Paper, Mystery

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.8, A&C Black

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• Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

  John Green

  Rights, Needs, Tonight

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.30, A&C Black

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• The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

  John Green

  Miracle, Way, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.3, A&C Black

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• And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Jobs, Nice, School

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• At least I carpe'd that one diem.

  John Green

  Towns, Carpe

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.70, A&C Black

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• But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

  John Green

  Together, Towns, Unlikely

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.434, Penguin

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• Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

  John Green

  Interesting, Towns, Unfair

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.32, A&C Black

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• But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

  John Green

  Shopping, Needs, World

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.30, A&C Black

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• Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Towns, Imagine

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• I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

  John Green

  Enemy, Important, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.59, A&C Black

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