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161 " Cath ran her fingers along the cover, over the raised gold type.Then someone else ran right into her, pushing the book into Cath's chest. Pushing two books into her chest. Cath looked up just as Wren threw an arm around her."They're both crying," Cath heard Reagan say. "I can't even watch."Cath freed an arm to wrap around her sister. "I can't believe it's really over," she whispered.Wren held her tight and shook her head. She really was crying, too. "Don't be so melodramatic, Cath," Wren laughed hoarsely. "It's never over... It's Simon. "
― Rainbow Rowell , Fangirl
162 " The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive. "
163 " What about him?” she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. “Do you want to kiss him?”“I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context. "
164 " Drunk nerds. Not my thing.”“You like nerds.”“Not nerds who join fraternities,” Cath said. “That’s a whole subclass of nerds that I’m not interested in. "
165 " You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking. "
166 " So why aren’t you living with your sister?”“She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said.“You make it sound like she broke up with you. "
167 " In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.) "
168 " He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now.""How is doing your hair--and maybe putting on some lip gloss--being tricky?""It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny. "
169 " If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes, we’ll never have time to be friends. "
170 " Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object? "
171 " I object to every single thing you just said. "
172 " She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be. "
173 " What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him. "
174 " I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page "
175 " Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach. "
176 " As far as Reagan was concerned, Cath was already problematically weird. "It's bad enough that you have homemade Simon Snow posters," Reagan had said last night while she was getting ready for bed. "Do you have to have gay homemade Simon Snow posters?"Cath had looked up at the drawing over her desk of Simon and Baz holding hands. "Leave them alone," she said. "They're in love. "
177 " Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination "
178 " I spent four months trying to kiss you and the last six weeks trying to figure out how I managed to fuck everything up. "
179 " She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn't cost him anything, like he'd never run out. "
180 " You're wearing at least four different kinds of sweater.""This is a scarf.""You look tarred and sweatered. "