Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl (2013)

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Honey, I've watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren't even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time - you're supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan." "Why does everybody want me to go to frat parties?" "Who wants you to go to frat parties? I was just kidding. Don't hang out with frat guys, Cath, they're terrible. All they do is get drunk and watch 90210.

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When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark eyebrows, she wanted to admire his crazy, vampire hairline—she had a feeling this was never going to happen again and that it might even ruin what was left of her life, so she wanted to open her eyes and bear some witness.

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Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy, Wren said. It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

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That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

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Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?

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Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath's stomach.

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I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

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I wonder…, she said, if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

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It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly. "You don't even know-" "I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.

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I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

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Cath ate the banana and held on to his gaze. I'd give you the moon right now, she said. Levi's eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. Yeah, but would you slay it for me?

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I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

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How do you feel when I smile at you?" he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little. Not like myself, Cath thought. "Like an idiot," she said softly. "And I never want it to stop.

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You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.

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You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping— her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

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And sometimes you held somebody's hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

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She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.

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Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.

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Well, she said. I'm frustrated. Don't make me angry-kiss you. Give me the laundry. Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.

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I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

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