Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

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She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

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If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes, we'll never have time to be friends.

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Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.

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Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

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Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers." "You were looking through my trash?

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It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favorite clothes—cardigans and tights and leg warmers.

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Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time. Pfft, Levi said, I'm picking out my own dress.

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She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be.

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Just … isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'? It sets a dangerous precedent. For avoiding pain? For avoiding life.

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What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?

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But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write—he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

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Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

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Oh, I love period dramas, especially period dramas starring Colin Firth. I'm like Bridget Jones if she were actually fat." "Oh... Colin Firth. He should only do period dramas. And period dramas should only star Colin Firth. (One-star upgrade for Colin Firth. Two stars for Colin Firth in a waistcoat.) "Keep typing his name, even his name is handsome.

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I'm sort of…coming off a bad relationship, When did it end? Slightly before it started,

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Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?

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He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

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Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

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Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.

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There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.

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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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