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..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here.
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Cath wished she didn't use the word just so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.
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She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.
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Are you on drugs? No. Maybe you should be.
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I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.
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Nothing before you counts, he said. And I can't even imagine an after. She shook her head. Don't. What? Don't talk about after. I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.
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But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.
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Everybody drinks, she said calmly. The Only Rational One. Your sister doesn't. When rolled her eyes. Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians. Objection, Cath said, reaching for a burrito.
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Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.
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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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I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page
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It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.
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She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.
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You flirt with everything. She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.
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Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?
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