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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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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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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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Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.
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What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.
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The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
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Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away.
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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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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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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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I'd rather be broken than wasted.
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Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.
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Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.
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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 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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I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.
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The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.
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For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.
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That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.
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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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What if I promise not to touch you? Cath laughed. Now I have zero incentive to come. What if I promise to let you touch me first? Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands. I've seen no evidence of that, Cath. In my head, I'm all hands. I want to live in your head.
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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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