Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl (2013)

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

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

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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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I don't want to kiss a stranger, Cath would answer. I'm not interested in lips out of context.

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Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

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Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don't do it.

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In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

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You can't take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.

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I like your glasses, he said. I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don't smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.

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I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

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He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now." "How is doing your hair—and maybe putting on some lip gloss—being tricky?" "It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.

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What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.

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Drunk nerds. Not my thing. You like nerds. Not nerds who join fraternities, Cath said. That's a whole subclass of nerds that I'm not interested in.

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God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

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Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away.

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Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.

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It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn't get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

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So why aren't you living with your sister? She wanted to meet new people, Cath said. You make it sound like she broke up with you.

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You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

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The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.

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I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

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You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent...... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

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Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

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I'm the Cool One," she told herself. "Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents' bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss?

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Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.

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