John Green - An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

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

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That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.

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By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.

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If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

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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.

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It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

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Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

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I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

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Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

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And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

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He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

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Shame about how we're gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It's the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is sodomy''.

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? 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?

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You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

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And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

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Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi."..."..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold."..."..."..."...

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You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

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Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries—God, the nature of the universe, etc.—he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen one in the wild, and didn't really care to.

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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

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Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

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You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

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The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

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