First sentence: The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.
In this chapter we meet Colin Singleton. The skinny child prodigy who just graduated high school and was dumped, by a girl named Katherine, for the nineteenth time.
did that sound redundant to you?
memorable lines:
page three:
"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."
"He did recognize, albeit faintly, that he was too long, and too big, for this bathtub - he looked like a mostly grown person playing at being a kid."
"'Eureka!"1
footnote: Greek: 'I have found it.'"
page four:
"But mothers lie. It's in the job description."
page five:
"She said i love you as if it were a secret, and an immense one."
page seven:
"He anagrammed 'yrs forever' until he found one he liked: sorry fever. And then he lay there in his fever of sorry and repeated the now memorized note in his head and and wanted to cry, but instead he only felt this aching behind his solar plexus. Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was the opposite of crying. It was you, minus something."
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