John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines Quotes
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.
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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.
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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.
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.
I don't think your missing pieces ever go inside you again once they go missing.
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.
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.
How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.
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.
...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.
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.
Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt.
I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.
There's no romance in geometry, " Lindsey answered. "Just you wait.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.
You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.
Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.
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.