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RAINBOW ROWELL I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”
RAINBOW ROWELL I'm ending this.'
'No. Come on. It's not worth it.'
'You are,' he said fiercel...
RAINBOW ROWELL Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever.
RAINBOW ROWELL Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m...
RAINBOW ROWELL I don't feel like a trauma victim. I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes I fell like someo...
RAINBOW ROWELL I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile a...
RAINBOW ROWELL Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.
RAINBOW ROWELL I don’t want to love someone so much that they take up all my head, all my space.
RAINBOW ROWELL Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date
RAINBOW ROWELL I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad t...
RAINBOW ROWELL But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to...
RAINBOW ROWELL How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside ...
RAINBOW ROWELL 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...
RAINBOW ROWELL I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisite...
RAINBOW ROWELL October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, t...
RAINBOW ROWELL When she sat down to write, she didn't have to wade back into the story slowly, waiting to get used ...
RAINBOW ROWELL There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her ...
RAINBOW ROWELL You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
RAINBOW ROWELL Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando...
RAINBOW ROWELL I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS.
THEY GET BEGINN...
RAINBOW ROWELL I don't even know what it means to be Korean..." he said.
"Well, I don't know what it mea...
RAINBOW ROWELL He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in...
RAINBOW ROWELL No se había dado cuenta de Omaha fuera un sitio tan bonito. (Mentalmente, le atribuía el mérito a...
RAINBOW ROWELL «Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta.
«Lo so.»
Ele...
RAINBOW ROWELL What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever...
RAINBOW ROWELL No matter what happens," Park said, "I love you.
RAINBOW ROWELL This kiss had to last Park forever.
It had to get him home.
He needed to remember it when ...
RAINBOW ROWELL There's not such thing as handsome princes, she told herself.
There's no such thing as happily ...
RAINBOW ROWELL You look like you," he said. "You with the volume turned up.
RAINBOW ROWELL Are you sure you want them to meet me?" she asked.
"Yes," he said. "I want everyone to me...
RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay," Park said.
She nodded. "Right."
"Because I love you."<...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.
RAINBOW ROWELL Sit down." He said It came out angrily. The girl turned him like she couldn't tell weather he was an...
RAINBOW ROWELL Good-bye." she said. "Good-bye, Park."
"Good-bye, Eleanor. You know, until tonight. When ...
RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
RAINBOW ROWELL But..." I'm not ready for you to stop being my problem.
"It makes more sense, Park. If yo...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too... That sounds bad, like ...
RAINBOW ROWELL He smiled, surprised. 'This is for me?'
'No,' she said, 'it's...' She couldn't think of anythin...
RAINBOW ROWELL Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I...
RAINBOW ROWELL She was pretty sure she’d thank him for saving her life. Not just yesterday, but, like practically...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back."
...
RAINBOW ROWELL I didn’t write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don’t get endings.
They get beginni...
RAINBOW ROWELL It's our last chance.
No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last ...
RAINBOW ROWELL I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,"...
RAINBOW ROWELL Puede que Park la hubiera paralizado con su magia ninja, con su toque vulcano y estuviera a punto de...
RAINBOW ROWELL He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
RAINBOW ROWELL Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it...
RAINBOW ROWELL Dear Park, I like you so much. You have really beautiful cheeks.
RAINBOW ROWELL He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm...
RAINBOW ROWELL