“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

—  John Green , book Paper Towns

Margo Roth Spiegelman, p. 37
Paper Towns (2008)

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