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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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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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Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.
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My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
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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 he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
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You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.
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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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The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.
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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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He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.
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I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost never mind when a movie changes or cuts something - as long as it helps the film work better.
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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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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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That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.
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He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more. That sounds excruciating.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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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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Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.
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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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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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