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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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Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
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It's so easy for someone else to say, 'Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.' Why not say it? It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't mean anything. No one will hold you to it if you're wrong.
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I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.
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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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Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting. When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.
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But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.
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I'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship, When did it end? Slightly before it started.
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I look like this because I'm alive, Reagan said. Because I've had experiences. Do you understand?
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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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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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He pulled away to say he's sorry, and she shook her head no, because even though she really want him to be sorry, she wanted to kiss him more.
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You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.
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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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I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.
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Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.
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Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
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