It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.
Rainbow RowellNo, I know,โ Levi said. โBut itโs not you. You donโt push through every moment. You pay attention. You take everything in. I like that about youโI like that better.โ Cath closed her eyes and felt tears catch on her cheeks. โI like your glasses,โ he said. โI like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you donโt smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.โฆ Cather.โ He kissed her mouth. โLook at me.โ She did. โI choose you over everyone.
Rainbow RowellBut he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
Rainbow RowellI'm the Cool One," she told herself. "Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents' bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss?
Rainbow RowellBono met his wife in high school," Park says. "So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers. "Iโm not kidding," he says. "You should be," she says, "weโre sixteen." "What about Romeo and Juliet?" "Shallow, confused," then dead. "I love you, Park says. "Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers. "Iโm not kidding," he says. "You should be.
Rainbow RowellYou don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.
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