
Top 100 Quotes About Cath
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Taking off Levi's shirt had been such an inspired idea, Cath was thinking about losing her own.
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#5. 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.
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#6. If Cath had to choose between everyone, she'd choose Wren.
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#7. Cath lifted her chin and, for the first time, dared to imagine herself a queen.
Marissa Meyer
#8. 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
#9. So stop making it so hard, Cath. You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?
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#10. 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)
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#11. 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.
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#12. Cath could hear the perv shouting curses behind them. "Oh, fuck you, Flowers in the Attic!" Levi shouted back
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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
#15. 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.
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#16. Shut that thing down," Nick said. "You're corrupting my creative centers with static." "That's what she said," Cath said, closing her laptop.
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#17. Cath didn't feel, for the moment, like her DNA was a trap ready to snap closed on her.
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#18. People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.
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#19. Cath turned down her phone and slid it into her bag.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. It's not wind at all," Cath said. "It's what we feel when time suddenly jolts forward.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. The fact that he misspelled "pumpkin" made Cath wince.
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#28. - 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
#29. 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.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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?
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#34. Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.
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#36. Your face is flushed, did you know that?"
"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."
That made Cath laugh.
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#37. There was a knock at the door. Cath eyed it suspiciously. More knocking. "I know that's you," she said into the phone. Levi laughed.
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#38. Mom had considered Cath a bit of a hoochie, but the truth was that Cath always opened her heart when she opened her legs.
Ruthie Knox
#39. Levi kicked her chair. "Cath. Read me your fan fiction. I want to know what happens next."
She opened her computer slowly, as if she were still thinking about it. As if there were any way she was going to say no. Levi wanted to know what happened next. That question was Cath's Achilles' heel.
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#40. This wasn't good, but it was something. Cath could always change it later. That was the beauty in stacking up words
they got cheaper, the more you had of them. It would feel good to come back and cut this when she had worked her way to something better.
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#41. 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 I never want it to stop.
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#42. Fuck Wren. No ... Damn her. Never mind her. All Wren did lately was complicate Cath's world.
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#43. Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One.
"Your sister doesn't."
When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians."
"Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.
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#44. He was trying to talk to Cath about buffalo. As far as she could tell, Levi had a whole class that was just about buffalo. He seemed like he'd major in buffalo if that were an option. Maybe it was an option ... .
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#45. Saint Cath, please guide my eyes, she prays, and keep my hands from stealing. She has to pray her prayer, or things from good people end up in her pack, and she hates that about herself.
Dylan Landis
#46. Cath wondered if that youthful face had ever seen a true smile.
Marissa Meyer
#47. Oh, hey. Christmas cups. Did you bring me a gingerbread latte?" Cath looked down guiltily at her cup. "I brought you an eggnog latte," Levi said, holding it out. "And I've been keeping it warm in my mouth.
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#48. Maybe we should go on lots of double dates," Cath said, "and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time."
"Pfft," Levi said, "I'm picking out my own dress.
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#49. He'll have to die in the last book first," Cath said. She still couldn't tell whether Courtney was actually stupid or whether she just couldn't be bothered to think before she talked.
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#50. The Irish 'n Polacks always get along- didn't ya ever notice? Irish 'n Polacks live on p'tatoes 'n got it in for Hitler, that's why they get along so good; all over the world. Never heard of no war between Poland 'n Ireland, did you? No sir, that's cause we're all Cath'lics.
Nelson Algren
#51. It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of her face, accidentally flicking cottage cheese on her sweater. "He already knows about all this. This is what I look like." She tried to scrape the cottage cheese off without rubbing it in." (pg. 290)
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#52. She wished he weren't so damned fit. Running away was a lot harder when the guy you were fleeing kept in such an excellent shape. -Cath Talarico
Ruthie Knox
#53. Part of Cath screamed.As loud as she could.And part of her set the whole world on fire just to watch it burn.
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#54. What about him?" she'd say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?"
"I don't want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I'm not interested in lips out of context.
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#55. Levi was thin and weedy, and his hair
well, his hair
but everything about him made Cath feel loose and immoral.
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#56. Cath exhaled. Then inhaled. Her chest was so tight, it hurt both ways. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest.
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#57. Reagan was sitting at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?
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#58. She left," Cath said, "and she never came back. Who does that?"
"I don't know ... someone who's missing a piece.
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#59. And we can talk about everything-she's a coder, too. And she got a thirty-four on the ACT (Cath got a thirty-two).
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#60. Cath held him even tighter. He was good. He was good, and she didn't want to lose him. Not that she felt like she was going to lose him on the interstate. Just, in general. In general, she didn't want to lose him.
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#61. Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
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#62. Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude.
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#63. Cath called all the shots. She seemed more comfortable that way, so Nev had decided not to press. Much. Instead, he looked for the loopholes and exploited them.
Ruthie Knox
#64. Reagan scowled at Cath. Are you Zack, or are you Cody?
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#65. Cath didn't feel like a mistake to him. She felt like a beginning. A clean canvas, ready to be painted. A gorgeous new idea.
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#66. I just ... ," Cath started again: "I realized that I'm not cut out for fiction-writing."
Professor Piper blinked and pulled her head back. "What are you talking about? You're exactly cut out for it. You're a Butterick pattern, Cath
this is what you were meant to do.
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#67. That part of the Skinny Bitch diet?" "We're skinny bitches on weekdays," Courtney said, "and drunk bitches on the weekend." Cath tried to catch Wren's eye. "I don't think
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#68. What do you know about Simon Snow?" she asked. He shrugged. "Everybody knows about Simon Snow." "You've read the books?" "I've seen the movies." Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt.
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#69. I don't have to forgive you," Cath said. "It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.
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#70. Levi lived in a house, like an adult. Cath lived in a dorm, like a young adult - like someone who was still on adulthood probation.
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#71. Seriously, why aren't you on drugs?" Cath walked past her out of the room.
"Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?"
"I'm on drugs," Reagan said. "They're a beautiful thing.
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#72. Come home with me, Cath. I miss you. And I don't want to say good night. - Levi.
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#73. Cath liked Levi. A lot. She liked looking at him. She liked listening to him -- though sometimes she hated listening to him talk to other people. She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn't cost him anything, like he'd never run out. He made everything look so easy.
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#74. Her dad was wrong about worrying. Cath liked to worry. It made her feel proactive, even when she was totally helpless.
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#75. Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.
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#76. Maybe he'd already gone to bed. Maybe Cath could just climb into his bed like Goldilocks, and if he woke up, she'd just say "later" and run away. Goldilocks meets Cinderella.
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#77. Too late," Cath said. "And you're not my only friend." "I know - " Reagan rolled her eyes and waved a hand in the air. " - you've got the whole Internet.
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#78. That's great, Cath said, trying not to let her face show how much she wanted to kiss and kill him.
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#79. Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath's stomach.
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#80. Cath thought of Levi's warmth against her arm last night. And his ten thousand smiles. And his forty-acre foreheard.
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#81. Cath had a weird thing about sharing drinks, but she decided it would be stupid to say anything. She'd already kissed him.
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#82. He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now."
"How is doing your hair
and maybe putting on some lip gloss
being tricky?"
"It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.
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#83. How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside her was snapping. Her nerves. Her temper. Her esophagus. 'I'll write because I love it, the way other people knit or ... or scrapbook. And I'll find some other way to make money.
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#84. All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
Bo Burnham
#85. Levi opened his smile up completely.
"Oh, put that away," Cath said with distaste. "I don't want you to get charm all over my sister-what if we can't get it out?
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#86. So why aren't you living with your sister?"
"She wanted to meet new people," Cath said.
"You make it sound like she broke up with you.
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#87. Hey," Cath said, rolling her eyes. She hadn't thought he'd seen her. "Look at you. All sweatered up. What are those, leg sweaters?" "They're leg warmers." "You're wearing at least four different kinds of sweater." "This is a scarf." "You look tarred and sweatered." "I get it," she said.
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#88. Cath ... she's your mother."
"There is no evidence to support that.
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#89. And I do not have a weird thing with Simon Snow,' Cath said. 'I'm just really active in the fandom.'
'What the f**ck is a fandom'
'You wouldn't understand,' Cath sighed
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#90. Why do we write fiction? Professor Piper asked.
Cath looked down at her notebook.
To disappear.
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#91. The girl looked older than Cath. Even with her eyes closed. Levi's other hand was tangled in her long, blond hair, and he was kissing her with his mouth smiling and open. He made it look so easy.
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#92. And I don't have a weird thing with Simon Snow," Cath said. "I'm just really active in the fandom." "What the fuck is 'the fandom'?" "You wouldn't understand,
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#93. 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
#95. 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
#96. Some of my most beautiful glass pieces have
cracks running through them and I like them anyway because of the colours.
Cath Crowley
#98. 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
#100. 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.
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