I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

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About Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author known for young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park (2012), Fangirl (2013), and Carry On (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim.

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Everything true was too hard to write–he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

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I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

—Rainbow Rowell in Fangirl

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If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

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Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen―because you love each other.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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Wasn't that the point of life? To find someone to share it with? And if you got that part right, how far wrong could you go? If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn't everything else just scenery?

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, then you're seeking the wrong kind of people, for it has nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with what you do. Is that the kind of people you want? The ones who are more attracted to your status than you?

—Donna Lynn Hope

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

—Dale Carnegie

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Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need.

—Charan Singh

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

—Bertrand Russell

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There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.