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...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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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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You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.
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You're wearing at least four different kinds of sweater. This is a scarf. You look tarred and sweatered.
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It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.
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Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.
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I've never loved the name Rainbow - it seems like a name you'd give to your stuffed unicorn - but I really like having an unusual name. It stands out. And it made me feel like it was okay to stand out. To be different.
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I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.
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What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?
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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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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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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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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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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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You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.
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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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But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.
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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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Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?
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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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Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.
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