Paper Towns Quotes

In the novel "Paper Towns" by John Green life experiences has massively affected an individual and how they look at their life and the world that they live in. In the novel Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin are next door neighbours in a subdivision in Orlando. They were friends when they were little but as they have grown up they have drifted apart and their friendship has become a one-sided admiration by Quentin. After years of not talking Margo shows up at Quentin's window and convinces him to go on a crazy revenge filled adventure with her. This is very unlike Quentin as he is a quiet, reserved boy who likes routine and he likes every day to be the same and he has a set plan for his life but Margo, on the other hand, is a crazy, brave, adventurous

All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store... all the things paper-thin and paper-frail." Margo's strange outlook on life was shaped by her experiences with friends, boyfriends, peers and especially her family.

One of the first experiences that have influenced Margo's outlook on life is her family. Her parents have always cared more about their reputation and looking like a perfect family when behind closed doors they are far from perfect. They have never shown Margo any attention or affection. They have no clue who their own daughter is they just want her to portray a perfect, pretty, popular girl who has everything she could ever want. Margo does not believe that this is how life should be and she is determined to find a life in a place that is not made of paper, that is not fake so she once again leaves. She disappears without telling anyone where she is going or even telling that she is going and once again her

All along she thought that everyone around her is fake and that she is the only one who is real until she realises that she herself is a paper girl. She let everyone at school judge her for whom they thought she was and they labelled her as queen bee. No one knows who she really is, not her family, not her friends, not her boyfriend and not Quentin. She let the fakeness absorb her and she has been dragged into the fake paper world she thought she was better than. When the boys find her she is in Agloe and when Quentin asks why Agloe she replies, " A paper town for a paper girl" " I read about Agloe in this book of ‘amazing facts' when I was ten or eleven. And I never stopped thinking about it. The truth is that whenever I went to the top of the SunTrust Building - including last time with you – I didn't really look down and think about how everything was made of paper. I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. And here's the thing about it. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always have. And the worst thing is that I loved it, too. I cultivated it, you know?" "... 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 ever have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way