Here are the best quotes from Eleanor and Park, a young adult novel by American writer Rainbow Rowell, published in 2013. It tells the love affair of two introverted and unpopular classmates.
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-I'm not ready for you to stop being my problem. –Park.
-You don't have to say goodbye to me forever. Just for tonight. -Eleanor.
-Let's listen to music in my room. -Park -Okay , just don't get anyone pregnant. "Park's dad."
-He touched in her all the places where she was afraid of being touched. -Storyteller.
-What superpower would you like to have? –Park.
-I would fly. I know it's not very useful, but… it's flying. -Eleanor.
-Wow, what's the matter! It looks like you just killed someone just for fun. -Lime.
-He made her want to have her babies and to donate her two kidneys. -Storyteller.
-You act like there are two types of girls. The smart ones and the ones that boys like. -Eleanor.
-Not. No, I can't… no, I need to believe this isn't our last chance… Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it too. –Park.
-But this depends on us… It is up to us not to lose this. –Park.
-Is this where you tell me I'm a scoundrel and I tell you that you like me because I'm a scoundrel? Because we've already talked about this. I am Han Solo. -Eleanor.
He wanted to close his eyes, but he didn't trust her not to leave him there. - Storyteller.
-What are the chances of meeting someone like that? Someone you could love forever, and will love you forever back? And what do you do when that person was born half a world away from you? –Park.
-I miss you Eleanor, and I want to be with you always. You are the smartest girl I could have ever met, also the funniest, and everything you do amazes me. –Park.
-She was all I could see. –Park.
When Eleanor smiled, something inside her broke. Something always did. –Park.
He kept making her feel like it was safe to smile. -Storyteller.
-The first time he held her hand, it felt so good that it pushed away all the bad things. It felt better than anything else that ever hurt him. -Storyteller.
-I just can't believe that life gave us each other, and then snatched us from the other. –Park.
-Everything will be fine. Because I love you. –Park.
-You can be Han Solo. And I would be Boba Fett. I'd cross the sky for you –Park.
-Stupid and perfect Asian boy. -Eleanor.
-And why am I so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours. How could you love me like I love you? -Eleanor.
-Do not be angry with me. It drives me crazy. –Park.
-Park had the kind of face you want to paint because you don't want history to forget it. -Storyteller.
-Your father is quite a fichita. She spends all her time breaking their hearts and expects me to pick up her pieces. "Eleanor's mother."
-I want everyone to know you. You are my favorite person in all my life. –Park.
-All I do when we are apart is think of you, and all I do when we are together is panic because every second feels so important. -Eleanor.
-It's easier for me to make peace from a distance. -Eleanor.
-I'm just telling you that I love you. And that I can't imagine not doing it. –Park.
-There is no such thing as princes charming. There is no such thing as happily ever after. -Eleanor.
-I don't like you, Park. I think… I live for you. I don't think I can't even breathe if we're not together. -Eleanor.
-Leave… my girlfriend… alone. –Park.
-You look different. You look puzzling. -Eleanor.
-I want to be the last person to kiss you… I know it sounds bad, like a death threat, or something like that, but I want to say that you are the one, I don't need more. –Park.
-I don't think there's enough of her left. –Park.
-Nothing felt dirty with Park. Nothing could shame him. Because Park was the sun and that was the only way Eleanor could describe him. -Storyteller.
His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him. -Storyteller.
She leaned his neck back and kissed him like never before. As if he was not afraid of being wrong. -Storyteller.
-Do you think I care about something else besides you? –Park.
-Nothing before you counts. And I can't even imagine an after. -Park
-You saved my life. Maybe not forever, maybe just temporarily. But you saved my life and now I'm yours. The one I am right now will forever be yours. -Eleanor.
-I think you're… handsome. Beautiful. As he is a person in the Greek myth that makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god. -Eleanor.
-Maybe he just didn't recognize all those girls, just like the computer ejects a disc when it doesn't recognize the format. But when Eleanor touched her hand, she recognized it. He knew. -Storyteller.
-Because people want to remember what it is to be young and in love. -Park
-You look like a protagonist. You look like the person who wins the end. You are so beautiful and so good. You have magical eyes. And you make me feel like a cannibal. -Eleanor.
-I just want to break that song into little pieces and love them all to death. -Eleanor.
-Eleanor, wait, I love you. –Park.
-There is no reason to think that we will stop loving each other. And there are every reason to think that we will not stop. –Park.
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly, or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, something completely alive. -Storyteller.
-Dear Park, I like you very much. You really have beautiful cheeks. -Eleanor.
-They agreed on everything important and argued about everything else. -Storyteller.
-Nothing ever really ends. –Park.
-Eleanor was right, she never looked pretty. She looked like a work of art, and art isn't supposed to look pretty, it's supposed to make you feel something. –Park.
-My girlfriend is sad and quiet, and she keeps me up all night worrying about her. –Park.