Colin Singleton Quotes

• If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

  John Green

  Memories, I Hate You, People

  John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• What's the point in 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

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.38, Penguin

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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

  Inspirational, Real, Book

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.106, Penguin

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• You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

  John Green

  Real, Green, Remember

  John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.195, Penguin UK

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

  John Green

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.38, Penguin

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• The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

  John Green

  Myopia, Invisible, Inevitable

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin

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

  John Green

  Genius, Prodigies

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.91, Penguin

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• Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

  John Green

  Distance, Glasses, Myopia

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin

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• Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

  John Green

  Real, Done, Happens

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.402, Penguin

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• And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

  John Green

  Unique, Feelings, Way

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.408, Penguin

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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.

  John Green

  Real, Distance, Glasses

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.39, Penguin

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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.

  John Green

  Real, Glasses, Eight

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.68, Penguin

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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.

  John Green

  Girl, Type, Kitties

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.23, Penguin

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• And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

  John Green

  Moral Of The Story, Stories, Done

  John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.195, Penguin UK

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