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1 " Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. "
― Rainbow Rowell , Eleanor & Park
2 " Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. "
3 " What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible. "
4 " The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt. "
5 " It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys. "
6 " My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her. "
7 " Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want. "
8 " You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him. "
9 " She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away. "
10 " If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving? "
11 " Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses. "
12 " There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other,' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't. "
13 " There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me.There's only one of him. "
14 " I'm ending this.''No. Come on. It's not worth it.''You are,' he said fiercely, looking at her.'You're worth it. "
15 " He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu. "
16 " There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing. "
17 " Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces. "
18 " The world turned itself into a better place around him. "
19 " Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment. "
20 " Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual. "
