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An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
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He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
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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.
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If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
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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.
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Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...
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The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down.
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There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
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You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to 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.
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But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
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But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.
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There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
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The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.
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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.
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They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
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He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped.
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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
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I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
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That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: 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 their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.
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In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.
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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.
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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. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
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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.
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The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that's why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.
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