When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
→ Margo and Quentin are digging little graves for their past selves after waking up from their nap. And they continue to have a heartfelt and truthful conversation starting with the man they found in the park all those years ago.
→ This is again playing at the concept of seeing someone for who they really are. Here, however, John Green tells us that maybe we see people and they see our true selves through the ways that we are broken. So in order to truly know them, we have to know all the hurt, all the broken parts that make them.
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Paper Towns
PoetryI created a book of the quotes I loved most, highlighted and appreciated most rereading. If you enjoyed this kind of book, head over to my most recent work "Looking for Alaska" in which I collected my favorite quotes from John Green's bestseller. Al...
