Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.

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I thought you were just mean," Reagan said. "I liked that about you.

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Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?" "No." He sat down. "Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

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Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.

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You've read the books? I've seen the movies. Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) So you haven't read the books. I'm not really a book person. That might be the most idiotic thing you've ever said to me

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How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge.

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And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?

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So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than... I don't know, more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.

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You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

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She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.

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I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

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Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen—because you love each other.

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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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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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Baz. "Have you ever done this before?" Simon. "Yes. No." "Yes or no?" "Yes. Not like this." Baz. "Not with a boy?" Simon. "Not when I really wanted it.

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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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Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

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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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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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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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People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.

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But I saw this video, not even the whole thing, and I just knew that it was going to be my favorite song for...for the rest of my life. And it still is. It's still my favorite song... Lincoln, I said you were cute because I didn't know how to say—because I didn't think I was allowed to say—anything else. But every time I saw you, I felt like I did the first time I heard that song.

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I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You're the smartest girl I've ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …'But I think it's got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake

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He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

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But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

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She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

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You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you—first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.…

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I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

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I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

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