There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.


Galen Rowell

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If you can feel it why do you need the words?
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There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
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I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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 ...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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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Our fear is we're going to get in and find nothing, that this whole thing is a sham.
ANDREW ROWELL
He just lived in constant fear for his life.
ANDREW ROWELL
Prosper leaped at the chance for help from the West. He thought this was going to be fruitful. It wo...
ANDREW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
As high-tech obsessed as I am, I still use calling cards when traveling because they are typically o...
DAVID ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
I feel very humble and need to thank everyone I've worked with and who have made this job a wonderfu...
BARBARA ROWELL
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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