“It is so hard to leave–until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
As I ran, I felt myself for the first time becoming Margo. I knew: she is not in Orlando She is not in Florida. Leaving feels too good, once you leave. If I’d been in a car and not on foot, I might have kept going too. She was gone and not coming back for graduation or anything else. I felt sure of that now.
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?”
John Green, Paper Towns
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1 Laura Aug 6, 2010
“It is so hard to leave–until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
As I ran, I felt myself for the first time becoming Margo. I knew: she is not in Orlando She is not in Florida. Leaving feels too good, once you leave. If I’d been in a car and not on foot, I might have kept going too. She was gone and not coming back for graduation or anything else. I felt sure of that now.
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?”
John Green, Paper Towns