Paper Towns Quotes

Paper towns is a book about a 17-year-old teenager named Quentin or Q as his friends called him and his final few weeks of high school. His quest is to find the real Margot Speigelman his childhood friend that he has secretly been in love with since she first moved into the house opposite his house. They grew up together to then grew apart in High School. Until one night Margot asked to borrow Quentin car to complete lots of different pranks on her friends who have betrayed her. Quentin is a good kid with good grade and has never skipped a class, on this night with Margot he breaks many rules and he is on a journey of finding him self. I could relate well to certain ideas in the novel that affect others or myself in our society today.

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It is shown that life is pointless without happiness so everyone should aim for happiness all the time. Margo, the character that is Quentin’s childhood love is fierce, brave and smart and she knows what is important to her. In her hometown high school it is full of mean, materialistic and ignorant people that she is tired and sick of hence the reason she leaves. On her final night before she leaves Q and Margo sneak out and have a mission on getting revenge on all her friends who have done her wrong Quentin says “ I feel my heart beating” Margo then replies “that is the way you should feel your whole life”. This shows be that natural for people to have fun but a lot of the time we don’t always allow ourselves to do things that make us feel ecstatic. In Quentin’s life he is living in fear of being different. He wants to be ‘normal’ and live a life that isn’t filled with action and adventure and he doesn’t want to do anything wrong or abnormal and it isn’t until this night with Margot that he realizes just how great and exciting life can be. I can relate to this because I know how great it is when you feel that excitement or rush of adrenaline and how great happiness can make you feel, this could be from being adventurous and going cliff jumping, playing hockey or just being the dare devilish person that I am on a daily bases. This really shows me that we only get one life so why not live every second of it to the maximum and not take anything for granted. I am filled with happiness by the life that I have and give me even more motivations to achieve happiness in live for me and all the people around