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Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.

Rainbow Rowell

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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Disaster
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Crazy
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Retarded
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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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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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I'd rather be broken than wasted.
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He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.
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The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
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He already knows what I look like, Cath said. There's no point in being tricky about it now. How is doing your hair--and maybe putting on some lip gloss--being tricky? It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.
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Eggnog reminds me of mucus. Me, too. But in a good way.
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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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Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice it was supposed to make you feel something.
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I love you more than I hate everything else.
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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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That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
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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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If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes, we’ll never have time to be friends.
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I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
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I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
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The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.
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