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Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers. You were looking through my trash?

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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Nothing before you counts, he said. And I can't even imagine an after. She shook her head. Don't. What? Don't talk about after. I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.
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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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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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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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Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen—because you love each other.
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Ah...' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry.
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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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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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Are you on drugs? No. Maybe you should be.
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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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I'd rather be broken than wasted.
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She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.
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You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book person.” “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me
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To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
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You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.
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What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?
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Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.
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I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
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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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