It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
Rainbow RowellYou think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.
Rainbow RowellI think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.
Rainbow RowellYou know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.โ ... โYou can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.
Rainbow RowellHolding Eleanorโs hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how heโd gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.
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