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You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.

Rainbow Rowell

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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You know, he said, I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.
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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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People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.
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Well, at first, I was sure that he would feel the cosmic forces pulling us together. I wanted him so badly, I could feel my heart racing for him with every beat. It was destiny. He was a magnet and I was steel.
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Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.
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Baz. Have you ever done this before? Simon. Yes. No. Yes or no? Yes. Not like this. Baz. Not with a boy? Simon. Not when I really wanted it.
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We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.
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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 look like a protagonist.
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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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She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.
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I'd rather be broken than wasted.
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God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.
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The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing ... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?
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Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.
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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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You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.
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Take off your glasses. Why? I thought you liked my glassess. I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.
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