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Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.
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Ah...' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry.
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Well, at first, I was sure that he would feel the cosmic forces pulling us together. I wanted him so badly, I could feel my heart racing for him with every beat. It was destiny. He was a magnet and I was steel.
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People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.
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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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You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.
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It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.
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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.
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Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination
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You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.
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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.
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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.
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If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like I have to disappear into myself to write books. I go away, into my head, for hours and weeks at a time, and I hate that I miss everything. It's pretty selfish to want to pause other people, isn't it?
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You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.
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There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here.
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Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.
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Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers. You were looking through my trash?
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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.
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Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.
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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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