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Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.Rainbow Rowell
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Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.Rainbow Rowell
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What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.Rainbow Rowell
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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.Rainbow Rowell
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Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.Rainbow Rowell
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I love you more than I hate everything else.Rainbow Rowell
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The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.Rainbow Rowell
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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?Rainbow Rowell
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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.Rainbow Rowell
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My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.Rainbow Rowell
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I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.Rainbow Rowell
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What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess." He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?"" I love it." He says" Why?"" Because we match.Rainbow Rowell
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Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?'' None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.Rainbow Rowell
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I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I'm hopelessly in love with him.Rainbow Rowell
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I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.Rainbow Rowell
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You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.Rainbow Rowell
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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.Rainbow Rowell
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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.Rainbow Rowell
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I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”“ When did it end?”“ Slightly before it started.Rainbow Rowell
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You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.Rainbow Rowell