Fangirl Quotes

• She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Falling In Love, Love You, Eye

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

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• In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

  Rainbow Rowell

  Google, Situation, Bother

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.308, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Pain, Giving Up

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Running, Writing, Legs

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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• To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Life, Real, Nerd

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.549, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

  Tyler Oakley

  Competition, Talent, Slaying

  "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Smile, Confusing

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Happiness, Two, People

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.648, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Nice, Giving, Cost

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.547, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Guy, Rooms, Dorms

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Smart, Want Something, People

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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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

  Friendship, Tired, Care

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Real, Vision, Happenings

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.673, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cheesy, Together, Ever After

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: A Novel”, p.387, Macmillan

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• You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book person.” “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Book, Eye

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Carry On”, p.395, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cute, Needs, Looks

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.226, Pan Macmillan

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• But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Sometimes, Kitten, Boxes

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

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• There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, People, Odor

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.

  Kevin Hearne

  Bores, Suspects, Resemblance

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five”, p.42, Del Rey

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• Julie Chen. She's my ultimate celebrity idol. I think she's one of the most amazing interviewers and hosts ever - and would kill to pick her brain. I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

  Tyler Oakley

  Thinking, Idols, Competition

  "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Boys, Thinking, Differences

  "Twilight Scribe Melissa Rosenberg On Sopranos-esque Penoza and Jessica Jones vs. Wonder Woman". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I watch a lot of interviews with Selena [Gomez] because she's been in the public eye for so long and she's dealt with a lot of critique that I believe is unwarranted, but maybe that's just me being a fangirl.

  Lilly Singh

  Believe, Eye, Long

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

  Jen Lancaster

  Book, Talking, Years

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• I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Crush, Magic, Hug

  "Interview with author Lisa Kleypas". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. May 22, 2014.

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• I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled, his tone more Get out of the way than Sorry I ran into you. As I bent to retrieve my backpack, praying Kennedy and his fangirl hadn’t seen me, a hand grasped the strap and swung the pack up from the floor. I straightened and looked into clear gray-blue eyes. “Chivalry isn’t really dead, you know.

  Tammara Webber

  Sorry, Eye, Blue

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