Quotes on Colin Singleton

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.

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