“I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.”

— John Green, book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 304
Paper Towns (2008)

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