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I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

Rainbow Rowell

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.
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I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.
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I've never loved the name Rainbow - it seems like a name you'd give to your stuffed unicorn - but I really like having an unusual name. It stands out. And it made me feel like it was okay to stand out. To be different.
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Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.
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She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. You're magic, she said.
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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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You're wearing at least four different kinds of sweater. This is a scarf. You look tarred and sweatered.
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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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You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.
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Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?
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I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
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Everybody drinks, she said calmly. The Only Rational One. Your sister doesn't. When rolled her eyes. Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians. Objection, Cath said, reaching for a burrito.
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Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.
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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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You look like a protagonist.
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But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.
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My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
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You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.
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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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If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like I have to disappear into myself to write books. I go away, into my head, for hours and weeks at a time, and I hate that I miss everything. It's pretty selfish to want to pause other people, isn't it?
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