An Abundance of Katherines

by John Green

“Right. Faith in God. That’s a good idea. I’d also like to believe that I could fly into outer space on the fluffy backs of giant penguins

It kept the loneliness of crushlessness from being entirely crushing.

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

You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

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.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you.