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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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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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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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...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.
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That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
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..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.
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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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Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.
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She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.
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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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But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.
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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'm sort of...coming off a bad relationship, When did it end? Slightly before it started.
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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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I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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I miss you. That's stupid, she said. I saw you this morning. It's not the time, Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling. It's the distance.
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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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I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.
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I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.
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Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
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It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.
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