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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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When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark eyebrows, she wanted to admire his crazy, vampire hairline—she had a feeling this was never going to happen again and that it might even ruin what was left of her life, so she wanted to open her eyes and bear some witness.
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I look like this because I'm alive," Reagan said. "Because I've had experiences. Do you understand?
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In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)
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If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.
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Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.
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That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heavy while I walked along, swinging my arms?" Your girl? "The kind that respects my wishes," she said. "And my strength, and my... arms." Levi grinned some more. Because he wasn't taking her seriously. "I have a lot of respect for your arms. I like how they're attached to the rest of you.
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It's just … everything. There are too many people. And I don't fit in. I don't know how to be. Nothing that I'm good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn't matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it's only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.
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I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.
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Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don't watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.
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I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without...needing space." Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her. "There's no air in space," he said.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Rainbow Rowell
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February 24, 1973
(age 51)
Bio:
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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