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  • Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.

    Real   Glasses   Eight  
    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.68, Penguin
  • You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

    Real   Green   Remember  
    John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.195, Penguin UK
  • And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

    Unique   Feelings   Way  
    John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.408, Penguin
  • Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

    Real   Done   Happens  
    John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.402, Penguin
  • The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin
  • What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.38, Penguin
  • What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.38, Penguin
  • If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

    John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.141, Penguin UK
  • People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

    Real   Distance   Glasses  
    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.39, Penguin
  • And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

    John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.195, Penguin UK
  • Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.106, Penguin
  • When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.

    Girl   Type   Kitties  
    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.23, Penguin
  • And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.91, Penguin
  • Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin
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