Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.

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You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

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I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I'm a huge fan of punctuation.

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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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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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She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.

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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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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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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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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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To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

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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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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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She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice—a fetal smile—and it very nearly killed her.

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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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And his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

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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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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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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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Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.

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Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

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This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.

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Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

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The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?

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