An Abundance of Katherines

by John Green

But mothers lie. It’s in the job description. •

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.*

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.”*

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. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.