Rainbow Rowell

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.

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you

I love you. I love you both so much.""To the moon and back?" Alice asked."Oh my God," Georgie said, "so much farther.

Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual.

... Whenever Eleanor felt nervous or scared, she told herself to be happy instead. (It didn__ really make her feel better, but it kept her from feeling worse _)

What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?""I love it." He says"Why?""Because we match.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.

The world turned itself into a better place around him.

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

If it tries to take you," Wren said, "I wont' let go.

I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

She's all brute force and '90s clichés.

Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.