{"id":1879,"date":"2010-03-09T09:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T08:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mevme.com\/lizblog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2015-02-09T23:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T22:34:05","slug":"the-town-was-paper-but-the-memories-were-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mevme.com\/lizblog\/the-town-was-paper-but-the-memories-were-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The town was paper, but the memories were not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/foto.arcor-online.net\/palb\/alben\/73\/763473\/3037383835316633.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInteresting capitalization,\u201c\u009d I said.<br \/>\n\u201cYeah. I&#8217;m a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle.\u201c\u009d<br \/>\n(p. 32)<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg. Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. And Great Britain. And the United States. And czarist Russia. Me, I&#8217;m Luxembourg. Just sitting around, tending sheep and jodeling.&#8220;<br \/>\n(p.59)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.\u201c\u009d Now she looked at me. \u201cAnd that&#8217;s like a promise. At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. Till dawn do us part.\u201c\u009d<br \/>\n(p.70)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNinjas don&#8217;t splash other ninjas,\u201c\u009d Margo complained.<br \/>\n\u201cThe true ninja doesn&#8217;t make a splash at all,\u201c\u009d I said.<br \/>\n(p.74)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on, Ben. I mean she&#8217;s just doing Margo stuff. Making stories. Rocking worlds.\u201c\u009d<br \/>\n(p. 93)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. I mean, I could hate you for being massively unpunctual and for never being interested in anything other than Margo Roth Spiegelman, and for, like never asking me how&#8217;s it going with my girlfriend &#8211; but I don&#8217;t give a shit, man, because you&#8217;re you. My parents have a shit ton of black Santas, but that&#8217;s okay. They&#8217;re them. I&#8217;m too obsessed with a reference Website to answer my phone sometimes when my friends call, or my girlfriend. That&#8217;s okay, too. That&#8217;s me. You like me anyway. And I like you. You&#8217;re funny, and you&#8217;re smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.\u201c\u009d<br \/>\n(p.194)<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can&#8217;t do that until your life has grown roots.&#8220;<br \/>\n(p.234)<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Maybe the sure knowledge that she is alive makes all that possible again &#8211; even if I never see proof of it. I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.&#8220;<br \/>\n(p. 274)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s why I had to leave. As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.\u201c\u009d<br \/>\n(p.287)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what she&#8217;s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It&#8217;s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don&#8217;t meet up right.\u201c\u009d<br \/>\n(p.294)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren&#8217;t you worried about, like, <em>forever<\/em>?\u201c\u009d<br \/>\n\u201cForever is composed of nows,\u201c\u009d she says.<br \/>\n(p. 296)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paper_Towns\">Paper Towns<\/a> was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Green_%28author%29\">John Green<\/a> (Speak, 2009). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInteresting capitalization,\u201c\u009d I said. \u201cYeah. I&#8217;m a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle.\u201c\u009d (p. 32) &#8222;I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg. Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. 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