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• “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

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• “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”

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• “I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”

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• “I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”

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• “In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)”

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

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• “Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
  “It sets a dangerous precedent.”
  “For avoiding pain?”
  “For avoiding life.”

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• “What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.”

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• “You’ve read the books?”
  “I’ve seen the movies.”
  Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
  “I’m not really a book person.”
  “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me”

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• “I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. "I..." - her voice nearly disappeared - "think I live for you."
  He closed his eyes and pressed his head back into his pillow.
  "I don't think I even breathe when we're not together," she whispered. "Which means, when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?"
  He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears.”

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• “Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”

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• “I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”

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• “Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”

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• “I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’
  
  ‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.”

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• “Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”

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• “I miss you."
  "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
  "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.”

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• “I choose you over everyone.”

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• “He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.”

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• “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.”

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• “Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after."
  
  She shook her head. "Don't."
  
  "What?"
  
  "Don't talk about after."
  
  "I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I'm trying to say is, you're it. This is it for me.”

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• “How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge.”

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• “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”

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• “You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.”

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• “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.”

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• “Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up.
  "Are you awake?"
  "Have you been watching me sleep?"
  "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?"
  "No.”

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