Rainbow Rowell Quotes
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Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination
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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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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,' he said.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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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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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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It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard." I didn't have any concept of what that path would look like. Maybe that's why I didn't publish my first book until I was 38.
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Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.
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There was just no fear in her.
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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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You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.
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Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.
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I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.
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<> It's nice of you to say I'm your best friend. <> You are my best friend, dummy. <> Really? You are my best friend. But I always assumed that somebody else was your best friend, and I was totally okay with that. You don't have to say that I'm your best friend just to make me feel good. <> You're so lame. <> That's why I figured somebody else was your best friend.
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That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
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She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.
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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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Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.' 'That's not even the right kind of racist.
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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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Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen—because you love each other.
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All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people’s. Like they weren’t just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.
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So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.
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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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You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.
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Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.
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You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.
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He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.
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He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.
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