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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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How do you feel when I smile at you? he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little. Not like myself, Cath thought. Like an idiot, she said softly. And I never want it to stop.
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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?
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That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
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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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She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.
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So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you.
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The strange thing about seeing someone for first time in nine years is the way they look totally different, just for a second, a split second, and then they look at you the way they always have, as if no time has passed between you.
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I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!
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I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.
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What if I promise not to touch you? Cath laughed. Now I have zero incentive to come. What if I promise to let you touch me first? Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands. I've seen no evidence of that, Cath. In my head, I'm all hands. I want to live in your head.
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Baz. Have you ever done this before? Simon. Yes. No. Yes or no? Yes. Not like this. Baz. Not with a boy? Simon. Not when I really wanted it.
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That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.
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I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.
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There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here.
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To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
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I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.
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I don't want you to go, Sam said. She was upset. I don't want this to end like this. You don't get to choose, Lincoln said. It's just happening.
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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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That moment, she told Cath, when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.
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