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An Abundance Of Katherines

From the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Michael L. Printz Honor Book Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes t

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“He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot — a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Coffee, Energy, Sophisticated, Intellectual

“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, Colin Singleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Moments Before Kissing, Kissing, Girlfriend, Almost Relationships, Young Love

“It was his first kiss, and her lips felt like the coming winter—cold and dry and chapped—and it occurred to Colin that the kiss didn't feel nearly as good as the sound of her asking if she could be his girlfriend.”

— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Moments Before Kissing, Kissing, Girlfriend, Almost Relationships, Young Love

“Something surged through him. The nerve endings exploded into shivers on his skin. His diaphragm fluttered. And of course it couldn't have been lust or love and it didn't feel like like, so it must have been what the kids at school called like-like.”

— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Describing Love, Falling In Love, Moments Before Kissing, Butterflies, Having Butterflies

“And it felt like being stoned and sticked from the inside, a fluttering and then a sharp pain in his lower rib cage, and then he felt for the first time that a piece of his gut had been wrenched out of him.”

— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com

Tagged: break ups, Describing A Break Up, Pain

“Seeing the [Chicago] skyline made him feel what is called in Latin the mysterium tremendum et fascinans—that stomach-flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”

— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Chicago, Chicago Skyline, Breathtaking Sights, mysterium tremendum et fascinans, fascination

“It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell the perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the french word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not its smell on the skin, but its sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its le…”

— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Describing A Woman, Describing The Female Body, Smells, perfume, Female Scent

“She had the sort of broad and guileful smile in which you couldn't help but believe—you just wanted to make her happy so you could keep seeing it.”

— John Green, Colin Singleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Describing A Woman, Her Smile, Happiness, Describing Emotion, Describing The Female Body

“I don’t think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Loss, Empty Space, Filling Holes, Hole In Your Heart, Loneliness

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Quotes, Quotations, Who We Are, Identity, Truth

“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Missing You, Letting Go, Missing Someone, Pain

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: kiss, Kissing, Moments Before, Moments Before Kissing, Before The Kiss

“You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Memory, Experience, What Happened, The Past

“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Purpose, purpose, Life, Meaning Of Life

“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Magic Of Reading, My Favorites, Words

“Driving was a kind of thinking, the only kind he could then tolerate. But still, the thought lurked out there, just beyond the reach of his headlights: he'd been dumped.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Highways, Highway, Driving, Car Rides, Driving In The Car

“Hassan fell asleep around one in the morning and Colin, half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime, drove south on I-65 through Indianapolis.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Highways, Highway, Driving, Car Rides, Driving In The Car

“Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Geniuses, Smart People, Knowledge

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the 19th time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: First Lines, Literature, first lines of books