Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point." Patricia Frances Rowell
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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. RAINBOW ROWELL I love you more than I hate everything else. RAINBOW ROWELL 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? RAINBOW ROWELL 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. RAINBOW ROWELL 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. RAINBOW ROWELL I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too... RAINBOW ROWELL He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams an... RAINBOW ROWELL Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow," he said. RAINBOW ROWELL There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' wit... RAINBOW ROWELL What's the plan?" she asked. He grinned. "My plan is to do things that make you want to hang ou... RAINBOW ROWELL Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes. RAINBOW ROWELL It’s just... everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be... RAINBOW ROWELL I don’t just kiss people. Kisses aren’t... just with me. RAINBOW ROWELL You’re never going to find a guy who’s exactly like you—first of all, because that guy never l... RAINBOW ROWELL Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been w... RAINBOW ROWELL I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Lev... RAINBOW ROWELL You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it... RAINBOW ROWELL I lean into him, because I'm cold and he's always warm. And because I like to remind him that I'm no... RAINBOW ROWELL I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens... 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 Some calling cards are basically shams. They don't time the minutes accurately or you don't get what... DAVID ROWELL Find out what the maps will cost if they're not included, and how they get loaded onto the device. DAVID 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