Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell<\/span><\/h1>\n![\"download\"](\"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/download1.jpg\")
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\u201cEleanor 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cHe wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them.<\/strong><\/em>
\n Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.<\/strong><\/em>
\n And Eleanor disintegrated.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cHe tried to remember how this happened\u2014how she went from someone he\u2019d never met to the only one who mattered.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cHolding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI don’t like you, Park,” she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. “I…” – her voice nearly disappeared – “think I live for you.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI just can\u2019t believe that life would give us to each other,\u2019 he said, \u2018and then take it back.\u2019<\/strong><\/em>
\n \u2018I can,\u2019 she said. \u2018Life\u2019s a bastard.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cAnd when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.<\/strong><\/em>
\n Something always did.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cI want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love quotes from books. They remind me of how I felt when I first read those books and makes me want to read them again. Over the past few years I’ve read quite a lot of books and this is…<\/p>\n
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