Nothing was dirty. With Park.
Nothing could be shameful.
Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.
Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.
Rainbow RowellStichwörter: humor young-adult
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.
Rainbow RowellStichwörter: humor young-adult
She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be.
Rainbow RowellAnd 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 RowellI just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’
‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.
There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.
Rainbow RowellDo 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?
I think I missed my window," he said.
"What window?"
"My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late."
"It's not too late," she said. "You're getting a life. You've got a job, you're saving up to move out. You're meeting people. You went to a bar..."
"And that was a disaster. Actually, everything has been a disaster since I quit school."
"You didn't quit school," she said. He could hear her rolling her eyes. "You finished your master's degree. Another master's degree."
"Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough."
"It WASN'T good enough," she said.
"It was good enough for me."
"Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?
Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.
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