Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl (2013)

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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