Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

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(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)

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Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

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For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

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How do you feel when I smile at you?" he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little. Not like myself, Cath thought. "Like an idiot," she said softly. "And I never want it to stop.

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I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

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All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.

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Honey, I've watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren't even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time - you're supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan." "Why does everybody want me to go to frat parties?" "Who wants you to go to frat parties? I was just kidding. Don't hang out with frat guys, Cath, they're terrible. All they do is get drunk and watch 90210.

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I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

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I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

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But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

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He tried not to love that she could recite scenes from Ghostbusters, that she liked kung fu movies and could name all of the original X-Men— because those seemed like reasons a guy would fall for a girl in a Kevin Smith movie.

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It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.

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I wonder…, she said, if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

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He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

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I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

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The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.

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I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter. I pictured you, he said. I just didn't know what you looked like. And then, when I did know what you looked like, you looked like the girl who was all those things. You looked like the girl I loved.

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Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath's stomach.

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The worst thing about the internet, as far as Greg's bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz

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Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn't run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she'd never hit the bottom.

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She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.

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Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." She shook her head. "Don't." "What?" "Don't talk about after." "I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.

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Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?

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That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

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Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy, Wren said. It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

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October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

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She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.

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You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.

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It's so easy for someone else to say, 'Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.' Why not say it? It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't mean anything. No one will hold you to it if you're wrong.

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