Rainbow Rowell quote: "Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way—he shouldn't even have access to her chest. Levi wasn't her boyfriend. He wasn't family. She didn't choose him."

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connect...
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women ...
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I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters...
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and...
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk a...
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would re...
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there ...
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made ...
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I crave...
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find eac...
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With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader ...
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And t...
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I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good...
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I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs...
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Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
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I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me wit...
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You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater..and you’ve got some ...
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The world turned itself into a better place around him.
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Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;...
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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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I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am the...
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Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete...
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You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't car...
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Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your ...
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This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she w...
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Tw...
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a ph...
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Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.
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Noel was her very best friend - even if she wasn't his. Noel was her person.
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He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.
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She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.

If she s...
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You don't know when you're twenty-three.
You don't know what it really means to crawl into some...
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story w...
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Neal didn't take Georgie's breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay--that was really good,...
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There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.

He knows I'll like a song befo...
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Everyone’s still gossiping about where he’s been. The most popular rumours are “dark coming-of...
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He’s a book full of footnotes brought to life. He’s a jacket made of elbow patches.
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Just when you think you're having a scene without Simon, he drops in to remind you that everyone els...
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I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met,...
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It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of ...
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What do you want to show me?"

"Nothing, really. I just want to be alone with you for a mi...
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Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go."
"That's okay,...
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I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. "I..." - her vo...
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And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.
Something always did.
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Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m goin...
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Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
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She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward.
"Cather..."
Back up to his eyes.
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You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.
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You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt c...
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He already thought she was a weirdo, and this was just going to make her seem that much weirder. Did...
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
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She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her.
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Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.”
“Don’t make me angry-kiss you.”
“Give m...
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She was tired of being the one who cried.
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That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heav...
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Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would hav...
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In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of bein...
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I’d give you the moon right now,” she said.
Levi’s eyes flashed happily, and he hitched u...
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And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another h...
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I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothi...
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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 ...
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That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.
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You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just...
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No," Cath said, "Seriously. Look at you. You’ve got your shit together, you’re not scared of any...
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It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly.
"You don't even know-"
"I don't have to know,...
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That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently—that you're...
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You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.
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But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box...
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How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And ...
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I feel sorry for you, and I'm going to be your friend."
"I don't want to be your friend," Cath ...
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Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.
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In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the o...
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It's so easy for someone else to say, 'Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.' Why not say...
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Things get better — hurt less — over time. If you let them.
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There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments whe...
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Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop be...
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I'm not really a book person."
"That might be the most idiotic thing you've ever said to me.
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So why aren’t you living with your sister?”

“She wanted to meet new people,” Cath...
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She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school.
"My mum said t...
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That's what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection.
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I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.
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Emergency dance party--go away.
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How often do you have to drink?”
“Every night, to feel good. Every few nights, to stay san...
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I think I might kiss him. He's right here. And his lips are hanging open (mouth breather) and his ey...
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What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
He tri...
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I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping...
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I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I'm living a charmed life.
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You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
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The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of ...
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I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.
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I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.�...
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You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for yo...
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I choose you over everyone.
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He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
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Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after."

She shook her ...
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Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat ...
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Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation ...
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But it’s up to us …’ he said softly. ‘It’s up to us not to lose this
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And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours...
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I love you," he said.

She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "...
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He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them.
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Bono met his wife in high school," Park says.
"So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers.
"...
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My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
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Nothing was dirty. With Park.
Nothing could be shameful.
Because Park was the sun, and tha...
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If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?
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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 b...
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..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.
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I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you
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You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But ...
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You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand.
She was glad he couldn't see her fac...
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Georgie. You cannot be jealous of Dawn--that's like the sun being jealous of a lightbulb.
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I love you more than I hate everything else.
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Safety, stability--it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft i...
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Reagan scowled at Cath. "Are you Zack, or are you Cody?
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I wasn’t built for this,” he yelled. “Look at me. You know it’s true.” And for the
f...
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<> Why are you lying awake, thinking that you’re a terrible person?
<> To keep m...
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Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the nob...
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I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I...
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Wasn't that the point of life? To find someone to share it with?

And if you got that part...
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Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?'
'None of them likes me back. I may as well like...
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Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month eq...
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What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love foreve...
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I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.
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You look like a protagonist.
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I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get l...
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It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of ...
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Really," Neal said. That's what he always said when he didn't have anything to say and he just wante...
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We're not broken up."
"I know, but we're still broken.
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Comedy writers don't join fraternities.'
'Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.
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I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too...
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He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams an...
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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow," he said.
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There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' wit...
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What's the plan?" she asked.
He grinned. "My plan is to do things that make you want to hang ou...
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Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
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It’s just... everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be...
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I don’t just kiss people. Kisses aren’t... just with me.
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You’re never going to find a guy who’s exactly like you—first of all, because that guy never l...
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Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up.
"Are you awake?"
"Have you been w...
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I miss you."
"That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
"It's not the time," Lev...
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You’ve read the books?”
“I’ve seen the movies.”
Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it...
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I lean into him, because I'm cold and he's always warm. And because I like to remind him that I'm no...
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I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.
He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens...
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I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”
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I'm ending this.'

'No. Come on. It's not worth it.'

'You are,' he said fiercel...
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Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever.
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Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m...
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I don't feel like a trauma victim. I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes I fell like someo...
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I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile a...
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Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.
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I don’t want to love someone so much that they take up all my head, all my space.
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Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date
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I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad t...
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But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to...
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How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside ...
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He's not a monster. He's just a villain. He's not a villain. He's just a boy. I'm kissing a boy. I'm...
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I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisite...
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October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, t...
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When she sat down to write, she didn't have to wade back into the story slowly, waiting to get used ...
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There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her ...
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You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
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That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
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It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
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Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando...
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I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS.
THEY GET BEGINN...
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I don't even know what it means to be Korean..." he said.

"Well, I don't know what it mea...
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He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in...
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No se había dado cuenta de Omaha fuera un sitio tan bonito. (Mentalmente, le atribuía el mérito a...
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«Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta.
«Lo so.»
Ele...
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What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever...
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No matter what happens," Park said, "I love you.
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This kiss had to last Park forever.
It had to get him home.
He needed to remember it when ...
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There's not such thing as handsome princes, she told herself.
There's no such thing as happily ...
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You look like you," he said. "You with the volume turned up.
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Are you sure you want them to meet me?" she asked.

"Yes," he said. "I want everyone to me...
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It's going to be okay," Park said.

She nodded. "Right."

"Because I love you."<...
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I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.
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Sit down." He said It came out angrily. The girl turned him like she couldn't tell weather he was an...
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Good-bye." she said. "Good-bye, Park."

"Good-bye, Eleanor. You know, until tonight. When ...
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That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
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But..." I'm not ready for you to stop being my problem.

"It makes more sense, Park. If yo...
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I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too... That sounds bad, like ...
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He smiled, surprised. 'This is for me?'
'No,' she said, 'it's...' She couldn't think of anythin...
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Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I...
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She was pretty sure she’d thank him for saving her life. Not just yesterday, but, like practically...
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I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back."
...
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I didn’t write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don’t get endings.
They get beginni...
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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 ...
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I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,"...
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Puede que Park la hubiera paralizado con su magia ninja, con su toque vulcano y estuviera a punto de...
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He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
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Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it...
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Dear Park, I like you so much. You have really beautiful cheeks.
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Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way—he shouldn't even have access to her chest. Levi wasn't her boyfriend. He wasn't family. She didn't choose him.

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Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way—he shouldn't even have access to her chest. Levi wasn't her boyfriend. He wasn't family. She didn't choose him.

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