John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you."
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"...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I’ve always felt like the Katherines dump me right when they start to see what I look like from the inside—well, except K-19. But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?"
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"I don't think your missing pieces ever go inside you again once they go missing."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that’s when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"I remember stories. I connect the dots and then out of that comes a story. And the dots that don't fit into the story just slide away, maybe. Like when you spot a constellation. You look up and you don't want to see all the stars. All the stars just look like the big...mess that they are. But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn’t have been, because he would have been a Native American or possibly an American Indian or a First Person or an Indigenous Person, and they did not have Latin or any other kind of written language then. So did Ovid matter because he was Ovid or because he lived in Ancient Rome?"
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"It's funny how they thought we were dating," Colin said, glancing over at her."How's that funny" she asked, holding his gaze."Um," he said. Distracted from the road, Colin watched as she gave him the slightest version of her inimitable smile."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident. Finally, Colin turned to her, gathering in his gut the slim measure of courage available to him, and said, “Well, I’m a fair kisser."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
"Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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