The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.


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RAINBOW ROWELL
How often do you have to drink?”
“Every night, to feel good. Every few nights, to stay san...
RAINBOW ROWELL
I think I might kiss him. He's right here. And his lips are hanging open (mouth breather) and his ey...
RAINBOW ROWELL
What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."
He tri...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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.
RAINBOW ROWELL
You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
RAINBOW ROWELL
The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of ...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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.�...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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.
RAINBOW ROWELL
He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
RAINBOW ROWELL
Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after."

She shook her ...
RAINBOW ROWELL
Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat ...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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
RAINBOW ROWELL
And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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.
RAINBOW ROWELL
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?
RAINBOW ROWELL
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt b...
RAINBOW ROWELL
..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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
<> Why are you lying awake, thinking that you’re a terrible person?
<> To keep m...
RAINBOW ROWELL
Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the nob...
RAINBOW ROWELL
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.
RAINBOW ROWELL
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...
RAINBOW ROWELL
It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of ...
RAINBOW ROWELL
Really," Neal said. That's what he always said when he didn't have anything to say and he just wante...
RAINBOW ROWELL
We're not broken up."
"I know, but we're still broken.
RAINBOW ROWELL
Comedy writers don't join fraternities.'
'Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.
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