Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

"I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region."

"Miniature Emilie came along. Lincoln could tell she was watching him, but he tried not to encourage her. He didn't want to betray Beth. They wouldn't let you ride Splash Mountain, he thought."

"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!"

"From: Beth Fremont To: Jennifer Scribner-Snyder Sent: Thurs, 09/30/1999 3:42 PM Subject: If you were Superman … … and you could choose any alter ego you wanted, why the hell would you choose to spend your Clark Kent hours — which already suck because you have to wear glasses and you can’t fly — at a newspaper? Why not pose as a wealthy playboy like Batman? Or the leader of a small but important nation like Black Panther? Why would you choose to spend your days on deadline, making crap money, dealing with terminally crabby editors?"

"It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinball, with a giant shot of momentum. The feeling sometimes didn’t wear off until six or seven at night (when it was usually overtaken by the feeling that he was just bouncing haplessly from one situation to the next without any real purpose or direction)."

"It’s a number.”“It’s not,” she said. “It’s a chance to wake up new."

"He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn."

"What would it be like to hold a different girl?"

"I don’t know,” he said. “I just feel like I have to do something.”“Do what?”“I don’t know. That’s what’s wrong. Or part of what’s wrong. I feel like I’m sleepwalking."

"Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience."

"You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening."

"I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person."

"I said that sometimes it's too much."Well, I want someone who doesn't thinks so. I want someone who's heart is big enough to hold me."You want someone whose love will fit around your finger."

"I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too, at least one mountain. Is that too much to ask? And trees. Not a whole forest, necessarily. I'd settle for a thicket. Scenery. I want scenery!"

"I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter."

"You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to"He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast-iron radiator. "I just...," he said. "Just"I need to live my life."You aren't living your own life now" she asked. "I certainly never tell you what to do."No, I know, it's just..."Just"It doesn't feel like I'm living my own life."What"It feels like, as long as I stay home, I'm still living your life. like I'm still a kid."That's silly," she said."Maybe," he said."

"Your own life starts the moment you're born. Before that, even."I just, I feel like as long as I live with you, I won't... I'm not... It's like George Jefferson."From the TV show"Right. George Jefferson. As long as he was on 'All in the Family', he was just somebody who made Archie Bunker's story more interesting. He didn't have anything of his own. He didn't have a plot or supporting characters. I don't know if you ever even got to see his house. But after he got his own show, George had his own living room and kitchen... and bedroom, I think. He even had his own elevator. Places for him to exist in, for his story to happen. Like this apartment. This is something that's mine."

"Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl."

">>How old were you when you had your first kiss?>>Twenty. It's pathetic. Guys don't want to kiss fat girls. >>Not true. There are all those guys on jerry springer, and there's president Clinton... >>Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl. >>I'll bet you never gave anyone a chance. Mitch says you practically beat him away with a stick.>>I was trying to spare him."

"It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in."