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Colin Singleton Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“Seeing the [Chicago] skyline made him feel what is called in Latin the mysterium tremendum et fascinans—that stomach-flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Chicago, Chicago Skyline, Breathtaking Sights, mysterium tremendum et fascinans, fascination, Urban Beauty
“It was his first kiss, and her lips felt like the coming winter—cold and dry and chapped—and it occurred to Colin that the kiss didn't feel nearly as good as the sound of her asking if she could be his girlfriend.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Moments Before Kissing, Kissing, Girlfriend, Almost Relationships, Young Love
“She had the sort of broad and guileful smile in which you couldn't help but believe—you just wanted to make her happy so you could keep seeing it.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Describing A Woman, Her Smile, Happiness, Describing Emotion, Describing The Female Body
“And it felt like being stoned and sticked from the inside, a fluttering and then a sharp pain in his lower rib cage, and then he felt for the first time that a piece of his gut had been wrenched out of him.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: break ups, Describing A Break Up, Pain
“He wanted to draw out the moment before  the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Moments Before Kissing, Kissing, Girlfriend, Almost Relationships, Young Love
“It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell the perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the french word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not its smell on the skin, but its sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its leaving.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Describing A Woman, Describing The Female Body, Smells, perfume, Female Scent
“Something surged through him. The nerve endings exploded into shivers on his skin. His diaphragm fluttered. And of course it couldn't have been lust or love and it didn't feel like like, so it must have been what the kids at school called like-like.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Describing Love, Falling In Love, Moments Before Kissing, Butterflies, Having Butterflies
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