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I'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship, When did it end? Slightly before it started.

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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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.
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Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.
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I don't know if I even believe in that anymore. The right guy. The perfect guy. The one. I've lost faith in the. How do you feel about a and an? Indifferent. So you're considering a life without articles?
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God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.
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I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.
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I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.
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I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.
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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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