She Never Looked Nice, She Looked Like Art

She Never Looked Nice, She Looked Like Art

13 hopelessly romantic quotes from Eleanor & Park that will seriously make your heart flutter.

Bianca SparacinoSeptember 29, 2016

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

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

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Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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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.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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Nothing before you counts.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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But it’s up to us …’ he said softly. ‘It’s up to us not to lose this.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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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.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.

Something always did.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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He tried to remember how this happened—how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her.

The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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