Top 100 Rowell Quotes
#1. 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."
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#2. If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'
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#3. Come on, Park," his dad said sharply, "get dressed and put your makeup on." Like
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#4. They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.
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#5. With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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#6. No. 9 - The Wavering Wood I should take this one off the list. Fuck the Wavering Wood.
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#7. He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punchline. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me. There's only one of him. Park
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#8. Fighting! Fighting like white-trash dumb monkey ...
-Park's mom
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#9. All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.
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#10. What's the point of making a nice guy like me?" Georgie said. "Nice guys like everybody."
"You shouldn't have to make anybody like you, Georgie. You should want to be with somebody who can't help but like you.
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#11. Is it too much?"
"No. It's like you completed the circuit," I say, gripping his other hand. "I feel kind of drunk, though."
"Drunk on power?" he asks.
I giggle. "Shit, Snow. Stop talking. This is embarrassing.
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#12. Clark Kent doesn't want to be famous. He doesn't want people to look at him. If they really look at him, they'd see that he's just Superman with glasses.
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#13. You are very kind," he said. "Very wrong, but very kind.
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#14. Agatha's mum gives me nice clothes for Christmas, and her dad talks to me about my future like I'm not going to die in a ball of fire.
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#15. We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
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#17. I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page
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#19. I mean, if everything is already set in stone, why try? I prefer to think that we're choosing in every moment what happens next.
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#20. After two months of hanging out in The Spoon's production room, Georgie was 53 percent sure that Neal liked her.
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#21. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
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#22. You never know when it's going to be the last time you see somebody and don't want to miss your chance to say good-bye.
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#23. He turned around, suddenly concerned. Are you pregnant? Are you gay? I'd rather you were gay than pregnant. Unless you're pregnant. Then we'll deal. Whatever it is, we'll deal. Are you pregnant?
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#24. 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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#25. SHE'D DUMPED HIM. That's all. It wasn't that bad. It shouldn't have been. It's not like they were married. It's not like she abandoned him at the altar, or made off with his best friend and their retirement savings.
People get dumped all the time.
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#26. There's no shame with Park. Nothing is dirty. Because Park is the sun, and that's the best way she could think to explain it.
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#28. I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.
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#30. But you couldn't enjoy the fact that he was in a good mood, because it was the kind of good mood that was just on the edge of a bad one. They were all waiting for him to cross over ...
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#31. Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can't talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date
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#33. How could you possibly have a dark secret involving the Star Wars prequels? Are you responsible for Jar Jar Binks?
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#34. I'd give you the moon right now," she said.
Levi's eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. "Yeah, but would you slay it for me?
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#35. I also knew that music was pretty much the only thing in life that he felt was worth the hassle.
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#36. Disintegrated.
Like something had gone wrong beaming her onto the Starship Enterprise.
If you've ever wondered what that feels like, it's a lot like melting but more violent
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#37. 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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#38. She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward.
"Cather ... "
Back up to his eyes.
"You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?
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#39. But she made his comics smell like roses. A whole field of them.
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#40. Just enough angry, just enough indignant,
just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.
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#42. Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl.
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#43. Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them down
confront your bitterness and pessimism
and decide that you didn't want to be that way anymore.
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#44. It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
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#45. Her heart leapt out to him before she could stop it.
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#46. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest. Levi wasn't her boyfriend. He wasn't family. She didn't choose him.
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#47. He leaned his forehead against the mirror and closed his eyes. It was embarrassing to see himself smile like that.
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#48. Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.
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#50. Hmmm ... I think I'd like to be a stay-at-home mom with no kids.
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#51. No, you're not joining the head-injury team," she'd say.
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#53. If I have to pee during the movie, I'm using this cup."
"It's what you do best," Gabe said.
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#54. You don't hate him."
"I do," Georgie said. "His face is always wet, and the best thing he smells like is bacon bits.
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#55. She wanted to pull at him, but she didn't feel like he was hers to hold back.
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#56. Is it that important? Wouldn't it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do have? Should we teach only poets to read?
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#57. I don't think I have a memory of this city that doesn't include you.
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#58. We follow her up the stairs. Baz knocks against me with his shoulder and elbow. 'All right, Snow?' he asks softly.
'Yeah. You?'
'Fine,' he says.
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#60. I'm so full of power, I feel like I can see without opening my eyes. Like I could go nova if I wanted to and have my own galaxy. Is this what it's like to be Simon Snow? To have infinity in your chest pocket?
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#61. It's like being a fairy named Mary," he goes on. "Or a vampire named Gampire," I say. "Gampire isn't even a proper name, Snow. You're terrible at this game.
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#62. I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.
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#63. Flying across the country to reunite with your true love was always the right move. (Always.) (In every case.)
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#64. I'm just trying to figure out what's wrong with me."
"Well, stop," she said. "I told you, figure out what's right with you.
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#65. Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I'm not that kind of girl."
"Lucky for me," Park said.
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#66. I glance over at him; he still looks like something I want to eat.
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#68. You know," he said, "I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here ... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow - like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet - and then threw up in here.
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#69. October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!
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#70. I don't believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.
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#71. Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too ...
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#72. It's the good things that hurt when you're missing them.
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#73. Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want.
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#74. She took them off when she saw Georgie.Hello, Victoria, did you come to tell me a secret?
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#75. Just kiss me goodbye,' she whispered.
Only for today, he thought. Not ever.
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#76. My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
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#77. 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.
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#78. There's not much to any of us once you take out all the water. How much is left in a person, do you think?" She waited for an answer. "Probably less than a two-liter," Lincoln said, still feeling like it would be rude to act as if this was anything other than normal conversation.
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#79. I sit down in front of Baz now, on the coffee table
which I carried up by myself. He hands me his cup, and I take a sip. "What is this?"
"Pumpkin mocha breve. I created it myself.
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#81. 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 kissing Baz.
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#82. I think I might kiss him. He's right here. And his lips are hanging open (mouth breather) and his eyes are alive, alive, alive.
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#83. I'm not worried about you," Seth said. "Someday your prince will come."
"And you'll do your best to scare him off."
"I'm glad that we both understand the terms." He pulled her hair.
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#84. The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.
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#85. When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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#86. If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.
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#87. In justice. In courage. In defence of the weak. In the face of the mighty. Through magic and wisdom and good.
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#88. 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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#89. In America, they think that you become more powerful the more magic you use."
"Just like fossil fuels." Penny glances over at me, then snorts.
"Don't look so surprised," I say. "I know about fossil fuels.
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#90. This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.
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#91. He looked at me, straight into me, and I felt like I was in love with the sun.
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#92. What's the point of becoming a vampire," Snow says, "if you're not planning to hurt anybody?
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#94. I don't need new people."
"That just shows how much you need new people. ...
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#95. Sometimes it seemed like she would never be able to give Park anything like what he'd given her. It was like he dumped all this treasure on her every morning without even thinking about it, without any sense of what it was worth
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#96. Why would you want to act, anyway?" was Seth's take on the subject. "Stand there and say other people's words, let everybody else tell you what to do ... Actors are just beautiful puppets.
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#97. When she smiled up at him, he felt his heart swell against the inside of his chest. He felt that way all the time now. Even when he was holding her, it felt like there was something inside of him trying to burst out and embrace her.
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#99. When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.
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#100. 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? All that romance about snow and seasons ... You shouldn't have to make a special effort not to die every time you left your house.
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