Paper Towns

Paper Towns

John Green

305 Pages

"... 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."

Quentin thinks he had been given a miracle, living next to Margo Roth Spiegelman. After they discover a body together, Q feels a bond between him and Margo, but soon after, a window closes between them. It stays shut until the last month of their senior year, when Margo enlists Quentin's help in a possibly law-breaking scheme. After the night is over, Quentin feels like everything will be different between them, but when he gets to school the next day, Margo has mysteriously disappeared. He goes on a journey to find where Margo has gone off too, and discovers that he doesn't know who the girl is behind the window.

Despite the fact that this was way different from John Green's two best novels (in my opinion), The Fault in our Stars and Looking for Alaska, I thought this was a really great novel. There was so much depth to it, and I think the mirror-versus-window theory is applicable to anyone's life, even my own. I also liked the many quotes John Green included from other authors, like Emily Dickinson's "Forever is made up of nows."  The end was great, because it was happy, but also it wasn't, because that's life, you know?

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"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky