Quotes From "An Abundance Of Katherines" By John Green

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The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one. John Green
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live...
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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. John Green
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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? John Green
I just want to do something that matters. Or be...
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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. John Green
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable. John Green
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Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I'm changing it to 'God Hates Baguettes.' It's tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes. John Green
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We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken and shit. Why d'you think Hollis is still sleeping, kafir? Because we were up all night in the secret lair injecting butter frosting into our veins..A fatty trusts another fatty. John Green
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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."..".."..".. John Green
He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons...
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He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him. John Green
What is the point of being alive if you don't...
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What is the point of 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
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Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all. John Green
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Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter. John Green
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll...
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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. John Green
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of...
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. John Green
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll...
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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. John Green
That’s who you really like. The people you can think...
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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of. John Green
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And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none. John Green
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You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting. John Green
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War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that-- I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is. John Green
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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. John Green
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I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much. John Green
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The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit. John Green
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The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox. . John Green
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I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. John Green
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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. John Green
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The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible. John Green
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He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible. John Green
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In another 2, 400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible. John Green
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Words are not static. Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories. John Green
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You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them. John Green
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I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried. John Green
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Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to. John Green
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Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution. John Green
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That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.[p214] John Green
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. John Green
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Colin "I'm just-- I'm just a failure. what if this is it? -----andI never do anything significant and I'm just a complete waste?" Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. "See, this is why you need to believe in God. John Green
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There's no romance in geometry, " Lindsey answered. "Just you wait. John Green
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He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising. John Green
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But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another. John Green
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You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do John Green
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Hey, it’s Col. I’m standing in a soybean field outside of Gutshot, Tennessee, which is a long story, and it’s hot. K. I’m standing here sweating like I had hyperhidrosis, that disease where you sweat a lot. Crap. That’s not interesting. But anyway, it’s hot, and so I’m thinking about cold to stay cool. And I was remembering walking through the snow coming back from the ridiculous movie. Do you remember that, K? We were on Giddings, and the snow made it so quiet, 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. John Green
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All hurt is brain hurt. John Green
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The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you. John Green
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Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt. John Green
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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