An Abundance of Katherines: Best Book Quotes
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try not to do something remarkable?” (p 33)
“Made him realize the problem: myopia. he was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.” (p 35)
“Mysterium tremendum et fascinans - that stomach-flipping miz of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.” (p 37)
“You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” (p 105)
“It’s that there’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.” (p 127)
“If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone, anyone, love me?” (p 149)
“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. (p 200)
“It’s so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do.” (p 201)
“I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.” (p 201)
“It’s funny what people will do to be remembered.” (p 201)
“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.” (p 207 -208)
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.” ( p 208)
“It’s a crazy fugging snow globe of a world.” (p 211)
“The past, like Lindsey had told him, is a logical story. It’s the sense of what happened. But since it is not yet remembered, the future need to not make any fugging sense at all.” (p 212)
“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.” (p 213)
“Maybe stories don’t just make us matter to each other - maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.” (p 213)
“I will get forgotten. but the stories will last. And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.” (p 213)
“Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.” (p 214)
“And in that space, Colin though, there was room enough to reinvent himself - room enough to make himself into something other than a prodigy, to remake his story better and different - room enough to be reborn again and again. A snake killer, an Archduke, a slayer of TOCs - a genius, even. There was room enough to be anyone - anyone except whom he’d already been, for if Colin had learned one thing from Gunshot, it’s that you can’t stop the future from coming. And for the first time in his life, he smiled think about the always-coming infinite future stretching out before him.” ( p 214 - 215)
“And he was feeling not-unique in the very best way possible.” (p 215)
