Hello folks! You may think I forgot about this blog, because I didn't post anything in about...three weeks? Well, I didn't forget about it. In fact I thought about it nearly every day (that sounds a bit dramatic).
I'm one of those people who have a bunch of ideas for what to write about and then as I'm about to write them down I just sit there and wonder how am I going to put this thoughts into words. That's definitely a challenge for me and I want to get better at it.
In the meantime of thinking about how to convert my thoughts into words I finished reading An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. It took me by surprise I must say, because I didn't really believe that it could be as good as TFIOS (The Fault in Our Stars) but...it is. I liked it so much that I'm going to write down quotes/parts of the story that 'caught my eye'/made me think/made me laugh.
Spoiler alert for anyone who didn't read the book yet and plans to read it in the near future.
Before I start you might want to know who the main character of the story is - Colin Singleton an anagram-loving seventeen-year-old former child prodigy.
"Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down."
I can relate to that. Haha. ^-^
“Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.”
"As Colin had explained to Hassan countless times, there's a stark difference between the words prodigy and genius.
Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. The vast majority of child prodigies don't become adult geniuses. Colin was most certain that he was among that unfortunate majority."
“He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.”
"It rather goes without saying that Katherine drank her coffee black. Katherines do, generally. They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter."
"I'm full of shit. I’m never myself. I’ve got a Southern accent around the oldsters; I’m a nerd for graphs and deep thoughts around you; I’m Miss Bubbly Pretty Princess with Colin. I’m nothing. The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real."
"He knew that his mom wanted him to have an adventure. She'd always wished he could be a normal kid. Colin suspected she'd be secretly pleased if he came home one night at three in the morning reeking of booze, because that would be normal. Normal kids come home late; normal kids drink warm forties of malt liquor in alleys with their friends (normal kids have more then one friend). His father wanted Colin to transcend all that stuff, but maybe even he was starting to see the unlikelihood of Colin ever becoming extraordinary."
"Colin laughed as Hassan returned to counting the pennies of victory, but Colin's brain was spinning with the implicaions: if the future is forever, he thought, then eventually it will swallow us all up. Even Colin could only name a handful of people who lived, say 2,4000 years ago. In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of that century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything-there's no level of fame or genious that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible."
"He
found himself thinking that 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.
And Colin thought:
Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. Even if it's
a dumb story, telling it changes other people just the slightest
little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal
change. And that infinitesimal change ripples outward - ever smaller
but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And
so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than some."
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
“You're
not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start
believing you.”
“It’s
just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to
like you is not to like them too much.”
Alright I'm going to stop now with the quotes haha. There is more of great moments in the book so I recommend you to read it. It will not disappoint you.
The Abundance of Katherines is, I quote (again): "Enjoyable, witty, and even charming." - SLJ.
It's definitely on the list of my favourite books.
What are your favourite books?
Did you read this book? Did you enjoy reading it?
What is your favourite quote?
I apologise for not posting in a while. I'm going to post more frequently from now on.
(Hopefully I won't procrastinate with the next post).
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