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I'd rather be broken than wasted.
Rainbow Rowell
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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.
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He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.
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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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Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?
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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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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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That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.
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Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers. You were looking through my trash?
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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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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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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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Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.
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Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome.
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You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.
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I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you
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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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There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here.
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Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.
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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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You look different. You look unsettling.’ ‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up.
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