Top 100 Cath'lic Quotes
#1. - and you'll remember, when they ask you your religion, that you're a Cath'lic. Better say Roman Cath'lic, tho' I'm not fond of the word.
Rudyard Kipling
#2. Her eyes always bothered me when we were kids. They still do. They make mine ache trying to see where they end.
Cath Crowley
#3. Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.
Rainbow Rowell
#4. I choose you over everyone."
Cath took a painful breath and reached up with one hand to touch his chin. "I love you," she said. "Levi."
Levi's face broke open just before he kissed her.
He pulled away again a few seconds later ...
"Say it again.
Rainbow Rowell
#5. The music kicks in and maybe the bad times kick out and maybe the world's a little better for them than it was before.
Cath Crowley
#6. Everything is what it is. I just wish it were something else.
Cath Crowley
#7. Love's like an egg. Break it, and you might still have almost every bit of yolk and white, but there's no way you're getting that back in the shell. And even if you could, there'd be still all the cracks.
Cath Crowley
#9. It's not wind at all," Cath said. "It's what we feel when time suddenly jolts forward.
Rainbow Rowell
#10. Serial killer aren't creative."
"Watch a little Dexter and get back to me on that.
Cath Crowley
#12. These must be the most depressing words in the history of love. I tried really hard to love you.
Cath Crowley
#13. People keep calling it an accident. That snake bit me on purpose. I've named it Sneaky. Sneaky had it all planned. I saw its face.
Cath Crowley
#14. Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.
Rainbow Rowell
#15. Luce,' she says, 'I don't want my diary entry tomorrow to be: Stayed out all night. Went to prison. I have this urge to go home and watch TV with my parents and be completely boring.
Cath Crowley
#16. Levi was all smiles and fond glances. "Sweetheart, get the door. I've got this."
Cath pressed her fingertips into her temples. "Did you just call me 'sweetheart'?"
He grinned. "It just came out. It felt good.
Rainbow Rowell
#17. But it didn't break me. Nothing can break me unless I let it.
Rainbow Rowell
#18. If Dave Robbie's a song, he's written in major chords.
Cath Crowley
#19. Cath turned down her phone and slid it into her bag.
Rainbow Rowell
#20. People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.
Rainbow Rowell
#21. Well," she said. "I'm frustrated."
"Don't make me angry-kiss you."
"Give me the laundry."
"Tempers rising, faces flushed ... This is how it happens.
Rainbow Rowell
#22. Cath didn't feel, for the moment, like her DNA was a trap ready to snap closed on her.
Rainbow Rowell
#23. Shut that thing down," Nick said. "You're corrupting my creative centers with static." "That's what she said," Cath said, closing her laptop.
Rainbow Rowell
#24. Ed gives him a dirty look. Leo grins. Dylan twitches. It feels like something's going on, I think loudly, and I know that Jazz hears my thought because she gives me her serious look and blows a chewing-gum bubble in my direction.
Cath Crowley
#25. That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore.
Rainbow Rowell
#26. At least with my father, the danger was out in the open. I knew what to expect. But Auntie Cath is a different kind of dark altogether.
The worst kind.
The kind made from love.
Dawn Kurtagich
#27. I swim off Dad and Grandpa and the memory of Jeremy's party. I swim off that music they played at Mum's funeral. I swim till the ghosts in me are numb.
Cath Crowley
#29. I've almost seen him. And Poet, she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.
Cath Crowley
#30. Second hand books have a way of travelling, sure. But what travels forward can come back.
Cath Crowley
#31. We watch her walk into the spotlight she's been been hiding from most of her life. Sure, friendship is all about believing in someone so hard they believe it, too. Sure, it's about trust. But if anyone hurts her tonight, it's about ripping them apart with my bare hands and really enjoying it.
Cath Crowley
#32. A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.
Marissa Meyer
#33. Why do want to find him so bad?' I ask after a while, but she's not listening. I watch her a bit
longer. 'Why do you want to find him so bad?' I ask again.
She blinks and comes out of her dream. She flicks the band on her wrist. 'I just do.' - Ed Skye
Cath Crowley
#34. Look ... " Cath said. "I can't just let strange guys into my room. I don't even know your name. This whole situation is too rapey." "Rapey?
Rainbow Rowell
#35. A few minutes later he texted her: 'IDEA .. if your bored and you miss me you should write some dirty fan fiction about us. you can read it to me later. great idea right?'
Cath smiled down at the phone stupidly.
Rainbow Rowell
#37. Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.
Rainbow Rowell
#38. I am trying to bend the laws of time so I can get here five minutes earlier
Cath Crowley
#39. The falls is the only place that's not quiet here. Dave and Luke don't know it, but sometimes I go there on my own. I go to scream. I go to tell the world to get lost under the run of the water. I stand till I'm drowning in something other than this place.
Cath Crowley
#40. Kissed. Cath loved that word. She used it sparingly in her fic, just because it felt so powerful. It felt like kissing to say it. Well done, English Language.
Rainbow Rowell
#41. He's one of the good guys,' she always said.'Just sometimes he's working undercover
Cath Crowley
#42. I asked him what it was like to have a dad. He said he didn't think it mattered who you had as long as you had somebody good.
Cath Crowley
#43. Come on." Cath turned toward her room and waited for him to fall into step beside her. "I'm sorry," she said softly. "I didn't realize we were having a serious conversation until we were.
Rainbow Rowell
#44. If you smile at everyone," she said, "how am I supposed to feel when you smile at me?"
"How do you feel when I smile at you?" he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little.
Not like myself, Cath thought.
"Like an idiot," she said softly. "And like I never want it to stop.
Rainbow Rowell
#45. He smells the same - peppermint and cedar and a hint of old books.
Cath Crowley
#46. Mum says when wanting collides with getting, that's the moment of truth. I want to collide. I want to run right into Shadow and let the force spill our thoughts so we can pick each other up and pass each other back like piles of shiny stones.
Cath Crowley
#47. The fact that he misspelled "pumpkin" made Cath wince.
Rainbow Rowell
#48. Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get," she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get.
Rainbow Rowell
#49. I love lying here with you, under the books.
Cath Crowley
#50. words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs,
Cath Crowley
#51. Drunk nerds. Not my thing."
"You like nerds."
"Not nerds who join fraternities," Cath said. "That's a whole subclass of nerds that I'm not interested in.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. I don't believe him for a second, but I'm not telling Daisy that Dylan lied because I know what it's like to want a girl that much. To get dragged in the dirt behind her hoping you won't lose your grip.
Cath Crowley
#53. Art like that doesn't need words. That painting tells you something by pulling you into it and pushing you out and you know what it's saying without words being spoken.
Cath Crowley
#54. Your idea of romance requires a corset and a time machine.
Cath Crowley
#55. Cath lifted her chin and, for the first time, dared to imagine herself a queen.
Marissa Meyer
#56. If Cath had to choose between everyone, she'd choose Wren.
Rainbow Rowell
#57. Sorry," Cath said, rubbing her eyes. Levi had been needling her all night. Teasing her. Trying to get her to come out of her head and play. "I just need to finish this chapter if I want Wren to read it before she falls asleep.
Rainbow Rowell
#58. Taking off Levi's shirt had been such an inspired idea, Cath was thinking about losing her own.
Rainbow Rowell
#59. The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.
Cath Crowley
#60. I made you collapsible. I put you in and raised you with string and made you stay
there with putty.
Cath Crowley
#61. The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.
Cath Crowley
#62. Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.
Cath Crowley
#63. I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.'
'What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?'
'Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse.
Rainbow Rowell
#64. Ed? Are you alive?'
'Yes..and that's genuinely surprising
since your bike went over me about
halfway down. You're a very dangerous
girl to date.'
'We're not on a date.
Cath Crowley
#65. I feel sorry for you, and I'm going to be your friend."
"I don't want to be your friend," Cath said as sternly as she could. "I like that we're not friends."
"Me, too. I'm sorry you ruined it by being so pathetic.
Rainbow Rowell
#66. I didn't want to like him back. I tried to be mean to him."
"I thought you were just mean," Reagan said. "I liked that about you.
Rainbow Rowell
#67. I told her yeah, but there was no skin on my voice and she heard the bones in my words like I did. And I knew.
Cath Crowley
#69. He looks so stupid that it cancels out my
stupid so I give in and ride and he runs
and gets on the bike after only two tries.
Cath Crowley
#71. Some of my most beautiful glass pieces have
cracks running through them and I like them anyway because of the colours.
Cath Crowley
#72. I spray the sky fast. Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don't want to be here. Paint sails and the things that kick in my head scream from can to brick. See this, see this. See me emptied onto a wall.
Cath Crowley
#74. I never fell in love with her so I guess the part of the brain that controls love doesn't respond to being called a dick.'
'For your sake, I'm hoping no part of your brain responds to being called a dick.'
'Fair point.
Cath Crowley
#75. She bent over to pick up her glasses. "Do you need those?" Reagan asked. "Yes" - Cath put them on - "I need them to keep me from becoming the girl in She's All That.
Rainbow Rowell
#76. What would we do together?" Cath asked. "He'd want to go to the bar,and I'd want to stay home and write fanfiction.
Rainbow Rowell
#77. You threw eggs at her head. Odds are she's dumping you anyway.
Cath Crowley
#78. But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.
Marissa Meyer
#79. I come out of the bathroom and the first thing I see is Ed. Okay, it was a long shot, but I was half hoping he would cease to exist while we were gone.
Cath Crowley
#80. Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.
Cath Crowley
#81. I think she likes post-apocalyptic fiction so much because she's genuinely happy at the thought that the world might end.
Cath Crowley
#82. My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.
Cath Crowley
#83. Were you in love with Emma?" I ask.
"I was hard-core obsessed," he says without thinking about it. "Not in love."
"What's the difference?"
He's about to throw a stone at ta yard light but stops. "Prison," he says, and puts the stone in his pocket.
Cath Crowley
#84. I'm eclectic,' she said to the HDs once and I could see them trying to work out where she plugged in.
Cath Crowley
#86. Cath could hear the perv shouting curses behind them. "Oh, fuck you, Flowers in the Attic!" Levi shouted back
Rainbow Rowell
#87. They don't wait for something to happen. They wait to happen to something.
Cath Crowley
#88. It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.
Rainbow Rowell
#89. It's a different kind of missing. You're trying to remember, and he's trying to forget.
Cath Crowley
#90. You don't have to love someone to have sex with them.'
'I know that,' I say, trying to act like I'm not embarrassed for thinking love and sex are the same thing. I know they're not but I want them to be close enough to at least brush each other as they pass.
Cath Crowley
#91. If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.
Cath Crowley
#92. When she and Wren divided up their clothes, Wren had taken anything that said "party at a boy's place" or "leaving the house." Cath had taken everything that said "up all night writing" or "it's okay to spill tea on this."" (pg. 189)
Rainbow Rowell
#93. So stop making it so hard, Cath. You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?
Rainbow Rowell
#94. This is the problem,' she says.
'With us?'
'With everything. No one's saying what they want.
Cath Crowley
#95. Tell me why you're so unhappy."
"It's just ... everything.There are too many people.And I don't fit in.I don't know how to be.
Rainbow Rowell
#96. It was about friendship, and pink vans, and doing the wrong thing, but still finding redemption in the end.
Cath Crowley
#98. I've known Dave so long that I can tell what he's going to do before he does it. I don't want to meet the person who can predict what Luke's about to do; they'd have to be crazier than him.
Cath Crowley
#99. Reaming's the only way to get you anywhere.
Cath Crowley
#100. You know who Mr. Darcy is?"
"I exist, therefore I know who Mr. Darcy is.
Cath Crowley
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