Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly."
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"She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"Hey, mister, I don’t think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose"
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)"
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"He's mad at me."For what"For not being like him."Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years"Basically."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"I can’t help but think,’ Park would say during taekwando. ‘I can’t turn off my brain."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place?"
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"I don't like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don't think I even breathe when we're not together. 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?"
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I 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. 'God,' she said. 'I told you I shouldn't talk. I didn't even answer your question."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"If he were to look up at her now, he’d know exactly how stupid she was. She couldfeel her face go soft and gummy. If Park were to look up at her now, he’d know everything."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you…"
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"He was hers. To have and hold. Not forever, maybe--not forever, for sure--and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. And he wanted her to touch him. He was like a cat who pushes its head under your hands."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"You don’t care what anyone thinks about you,’ he said.‘That’s crazy,’ she said. ‘I care what everyone thinks about me.’‘I can’t tell,’ he said. ‘You just seem like yourself, no matter what’s happening around you. My grandmother would say you’re comfortable in your own skin."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
"I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens."
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
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