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Until this moment, she'd kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)
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Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.
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You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.
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And his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.
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Then Park reached up and wrapped one of her red curls around his honey finger. "Back to missing you," he said, letting it go.
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She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice—a fetal smile—and it very nearly killed her.
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Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.
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I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown." "And you like it?" "I love it." As soon as he said it, she broke into a smile. And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.
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To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
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There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.
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Eleanor, he said, just because he liked saying it, why do you like me? I don't like you. He waited. And waited… Then he started to laugh. You're kind of mean, he said. Don't laugh. It just encourages me.
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You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.
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I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.
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She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.
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It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
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These things end, she said. They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It's implied that something else will follow.
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He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he'd never met to the only one who mattered.
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People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.
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Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her. The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.
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What if I promise not to touch you?" "Cath laughed. "Now I have zero incentive to come." "What if I promise to let you touch me first?" "Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands." "I've seen no evidence of that, Cath." "In my head, I'm all hands." "I want to live in your head.
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I don't want to kiss a stranger, Cath would answer. I'm not interested in lips out of context.
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Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination
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This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner." "So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" "Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?" Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?
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There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.
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It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Rainbow Rowell
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February 24, 1973
(age 51)
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Rainbow Rowell is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park, Fangirl and Carry On have been subjects of critical acclaim.
Known for:
Fangirl (2013)
Eleanor & Park (2012)
Carry On (2015)
Landline (2014)
Attachments (2011)
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