“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.”
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<b>From the #1 bestselling author of <i>The Fault in Our Stars </i></b><br><br>Michael L. Printz Honor Book<br><i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize Finalist<br><br><br>Katherine V thought boys were gross<br>Katherine X just wanted to be friends<br>Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail<br>K-19 broke his heart<br>When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.<br><br>On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.<p>Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.</p>
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John Green
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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.”
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
“you can never love someone as much as you miss them”
“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
“Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to...”
“Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kiss...”
“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
“We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center...”
“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in...”
“Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatic...”
“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in...”