“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust
or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place
really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to
be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look
at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all
the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living
in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper
kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience
store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things
paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here
for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone
who cares about anything that matters.”
Margo Roth Spiegelman
Paper Town by John Green
Photo taken: 4th of January 2013 from the top of Mt. Ungaran, Central Java