Quotes From "Eleanor & Park" By Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving? Rainbow Rowell

There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here. He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me. There's only one of him. Rainbow Rowell

This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner."" So that she can make her feel bad and weird?"" Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?" Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her? Rainbow Rowell

He leaned against her, pressing his shoulder into hers. "Don't be mad at me, " he said, sighing. "It makes me crazy."" I'm never mad at you, " she said." Right."" I'm not."" You must just be mad near me a lot. Rainbow Rowell

There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing. Rainbow Rowell

Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces. Rainbow Rowell

The world turned itself into a better place around him. Rainbow Rowell

Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment. Rainbow Rowell

... Whenever Eleanor felt nervous or scared, she told herself to be happy instead. (It didn’t really make her feel better, but it kept her from feeling worse …) Rainbow Rowell

Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual. Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room. Rainbow Rowell

Because all her feelings for him — hot and beautiful in her heart — turned to gobbledygook in her mouth. Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor let his words hit her full on. Rainbow Rowell

And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her." Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Just. .. erasing away. Recovering the six inches between them Rainbow Rowell

He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this moment, under her hair. He ran his fingertips along the chain and settled the pendant on her throat. Rainbow Rowell

I'm sorry about yesterday, " she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens. Rainbow Rowell

You don’t care what anyone thinks about you, ’ he said.‘ That’s crazy, ’ she said. ‘I care what everyone thinks about me.’‘ I can’t tell, ’ he said. ‘You just seem like yourself, no matter what’s happening around you. My grandmother would say you’re comfortable in your own skin. Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself — ever — but she thought a lot about stopping. Rainbow Rowell

He was hers. To have and hold. Not forever, maybe--not forever, for sure--and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. And he wanted her to touch him. He was like a cat who pushes its head under your hands. Rainbow Rowell

I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you… Rainbow Rowell

If he were to look up at her now, he’d know exactly how stupid she was. She couldfeel her face go soft and gummy. If Park were to look up at her now, he’d know everything. Rainbow Rowell

All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?' He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears. 'God, ' she said. 'I told you I shouldn't talk. I didn't even answer your question. Rainbow Rowell

I don't like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don't think I even breathe when we're not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you? . Rainbow Rowell

Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people. Rainbow Rowell

How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place? Rainbow Rowell

I can’t help but think, ’ Park would say during taekwando. ‘I can’t turn off my brain. Rainbow Rowell

He's mad at me."" For what?"" For not being like him." Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?"" Basically. Rainbow Rowell

He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud. Rainbow Rowell

They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.) Rainbow Rowell

They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose Rainbow Rowell

To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. Rainbow Rowell

Hey, mister, I don’t think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry. Rainbow Rowell

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly. Rainbow Rowell

There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy. Rainbow Rowell

She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly. Rainbow Rowell

And then she kissed him with tongue- on the bus. Rainbow Rowell