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01c. 1973 AD

Don’t make me angry-kiss you

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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02c. 1973 AD

Baz arched an elegant brow. "Are you going to snog the Humdrum-is that your plan? Because he's eleven. And he looks just like you. That's both vain and deviant, Snow, even for you.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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03c. 1973 AD

When I wake up on Sunday Mornings - late, you always let me sleep in - I come looking for you, and you're in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect orbit. And you put their hair in pigtails and you let them wear whatever madness they want, and Alice planted a fruit cocktail tree and Noomi ate a butterfly, and they look like me because they're round and golden, but they glow for you.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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04c. 1973 AD

The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing...God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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05c. 1973 AD

If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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06c. 1973 AD

I wonder...," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

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07c. 1973 AD

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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08c. 1973 AD

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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09c. 1973 AD

Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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10c. 1973 AD

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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11c. 1973 AD

You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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12c. 1973 AD

How'd you know he was the one?""I didn't know. I don't think either of us knew."Heather rolled her eyes. "Neal knew — he proposed to you.""It's not like that," Georgie said. "You'll see. It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one — and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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13c. 1973 AD

I said that sometimes it's too much.""Well, I want someone who doesn't thinks so. I want someone who's heart is big enough to hold me.""You want someone whose love will fit around your finger.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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14c. 1973 AD

I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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15c. 1973 AD

You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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16c. 1973 AD

I am the sun... And the air...

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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17c. 1973 AD

Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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18c. 1973 AD

He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest.Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was a postcard.Just three words long.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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19c. 1973 AD

I don’t know,” he said. “I just feel like I have to do something.”“Do what?”“I don’t know. That’s what’s wrong. Or part of what’s wrong. I feel like I’m sleepwalking.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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20c. 1973 AD

Are you okay?" she heard someone - Levi? - ask "Hey... are you crying?"Cath ran her fingers along the cover, over the raised gold type.Then someone else ran right into her, pushing the book into Cath's chest. Pushing two books into her chest. Cath looked up just as Wren threw an arm around her."They're both crying," Cath heard Reagan say. "I can't even watch."Cath freed an arm to wrap around her sister. "I can't believe it's really over," she whispered.Wren held her tight and shook her head. She really was crying, too. "Don't be so melodramatic, Cath," Wren laughed hoarsely. "It's never over... It's Simon.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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21c. 1973 AD

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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22c. 1973 AD

All the men’s clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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23c. 1973 AD

She is a good girl," Park said. "You don't even know her." His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. "Go," he said sternly. "Go play basketball or something.""Good girls don't dress like boys," his mother said.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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24c. 1973 AD

What do you want from me, Snow?""Nothing," he says. And he means it, the actual bastard.

Rainbow Rowell / quote

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