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It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one - and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.

Rainbow Rowell

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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Maybe we should go on lots of double dates,” Cath said, “and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time.” “Pfft,” Levi said, “I’m picking out my own dress.
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I'm the Cool One, she told herself. Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents' bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss?
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I wonder…,” she said, “if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?
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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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He already knows what I look like, Cath said. There's no point in being tricky about it now. How is doing your hair--and maybe putting on some lip gloss--being tricky? It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.
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I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.
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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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Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.
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You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.
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Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.
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She was tired of being the one who cried.
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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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You know, he said, I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.
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My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
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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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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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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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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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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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I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.
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