Margo Roth Spiegelman is officially the most awesome person at Quentin’s school – much cooler than Quentin and his friends. But one night Margo climbs through Quentin’s bedroom window to enlist his help in a crazy adventure, and Quentin’s life will never be quite the same again…
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle ... I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman”
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will ... but if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
“Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.”
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm”
“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start”
“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
“The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.”
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”
“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
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