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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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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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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.Rainbow Rowell
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Emergency dance party--go away.Rainbow Rowell
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Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, ” Cath said, “and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time.”“ Pfft, ” Levi said, “I’m picking out my own dress.Rainbow Rowell
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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.Rainbow Rowell
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When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out.“ I’m such an idiot, ” he said. Cath fell between his knees and hugged him.“ I can’t believe I said that, ” he said. “I can’t even go nine hours without seeing you.Rainbow Rowell
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Parfois, écrire se rapproche de la chute libre : vos doigts s'agitent sur le clavier comme vos jambes dans le vide.Rainbow Rowell
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Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.Rainbow Rowell
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The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god–or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.Rainbow Rowell
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When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.Rainbow Rowell
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Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months–they're like dog months.Rainbow Rowell
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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?Rainbow Rowell
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You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater.and you’ve got some weird thing about Simon Snow.""I object to every single thing you just said." Reagan chewed. And frowned. She was wearing dark red lipstick." I have lots of friends, " Cath said." I never see them."" I just got here. Most of my friends went to other schools. Or they’re online."" Internet friends don’t count."" Why not?" Reagan shrugged disdainfully." And I don’t have a weird thing with Simon Snow, " Cath said. "I’m just really active in the fandom."" What the fuck is ‘the fandom’? .Rainbow Rowell
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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.Rainbow Rowell
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If it tries to take you, " Wren said, "I wont' let go.Rainbow Rowell
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To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.Rainbow Rowell
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I'm fine, " [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?'' Living, ' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse.Rainbow Rowell
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They slow your brain down, " he said, clutching an orange bottle of pills. "They iron out all the wrinkles... Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too..." They break your brain like a horse, so it takes all your orders. I need a break that can break away, you know? I need to think. If I can't think, who am I?Rainbow Rowell