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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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I'm the Cool One, she told herself. Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents' bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss?
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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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Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)
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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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Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
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Eggnog reminds me of mucus. Me, too. But in a good way.
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I miss you. That's stupid, she said. I saw you this morning. It's not the time, Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling. It's the distance.
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What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.
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You look different. You look unsettling.’ ‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up.
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I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?
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But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.
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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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What about him? she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. Do you want to kiss him? I don’t want to kiss a stranger, Cath would answer. I’m not interested in lips out of context.
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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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...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.
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You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.
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My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
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That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.
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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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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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