Identity Quotes in Paper Towns

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #7

"Stop thinking Ben should be you, and he needs to stop thinking you should be him, and y'all just chill the hell out." (2.14.46)

Radar makes a good point about friendship: Good friends have complementary personalities, and they accept each other's differences instead of trying to change them. And really, it would be boring if everyone acted exactly the same.

Quote #8

Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. (2.15.22)

Quentin realizes that by idolizing Margo, he was taking away her humanity, in a way. He wasn't treating her as a person; he was treating her as an object or an ideal.

Quote #9

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. (2.19.13)

That sounds like a fate worse than death. We'd rather be Kafka turned into a cockroach.