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by Rainbow Rowell

Money is a cruel thing. It’s the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love.”

I felt like a butterfly had landed on me. If I moved or even breathed, I thought he would float away.

Matt Lauer isn’t homely.

ew

Are you retarded?”

oh noooooo

It would have to be. I already love you so much. I already feel like something in my chest is going to pop when I see you. 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.”

I was born in February, but I come alive in October.

“Why aren’t they on MTV instead of all that Backstreet bullshit?”

over the line

It’s not like he’s somebody else. It’s like he’s usually nobody at all.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”

The idea that you’re hard to love is ludicrous.

Things get better—hurt less—over time. If you let them.

if you let them

“Do you believe in love at first sight?” He made himself look at her face, at her wide-open eyes and earnest forehead. At her unbearably sweet mouth. “I don’t know,” he said. “Do you believe in love before that?”