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“Carry on, Simon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“He looks at my face and huffs, exasperated. "Baz, you're actually, literally the only thing I have to lose. So as long as doing gay stuff in public doesn't make you hate me, I don't really care."
"We're just dancing," I say. "That's hardly gay stuff."
"Dancing's well gay," he says. "Even when it isn't two blokes.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“(People who tell you that slamming and bashing into things won't make you feel better haven't slammed or bashed enough.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You did it, didn't you?" Baz whispers. "You defeated the Humdrum. You saved the day, you courageous fuck. You absolute nightmare.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”
“It made us roommates,” he says.
I shake my head. “We were always more.”
“We were enemies.”
“You were the centre of my universe,” I say. “Everything else spun around you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You don't have to laugh out loud to mock someone.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“When I was in the coffin, I pushed myself closer.
I let myself slip away....
Just to stay sane. Just to get through it.

And when I felt myself slipping too far, I hold on to the thing I'm always sure of--

Blue eyes.
Bronze curls.

The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful mage alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me.

That Simon Snow is alive.

And I'm hopelessly in love with him.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I know I usually come down here to tell you I’m sorry. But I think today I want to tell you that I’m going to be all right. Don’t let me be one of the things that keeps you from peace, Mother. I’m all right.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“It's going to be okay." Baz wraps both arms around him. "It's all right, love."
Everything is starting to make sense.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Go on, then," he says. "Carry on, Simon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I don't feel like a trauma victim. I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes I fell like someone who died but stayed in his body. And sometimes I feel like someone else died, like someone else sacrificed everything, so that I can have a normal life.
With wings.
And a tail.
And vampires.
And magicians.
And a boy in my arms, instead of a girl.
And a happy ending—even if it isn't the ending I ever would have dreamt for myself, or hoped for.
A chance.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I saw you.

I held you.

I wanted you.

That's what I came back to tell you. I loved you before I met you, and I loved you more the moment I held you. And I never meant to leav you so soon.
I never would have left you.

Simon, Simon.

My rosebud boy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I´m always sure of-
Blue eyes.
Bronze curls.
The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me.
That Simon Snow is alive.
And I´m hopelessly in love with him."
Baz (page 176)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I loved you before I met you, and I loved you the moment I held you. And I never meant to leave you so soon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Looking at you was just like looking into the sun.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“It's okay that you're not okay. Whatever you're feeling is okay.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I'm not sure what we're doing, to be perfectly honest -- but nothing's on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we've solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“That breaks my heart, to think that you can't remember a world without the Humdrum. I worry that your generation will just acclimate to it. That you won't see the necessity of fighting back.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You’re still Simon Snow. You’re still the hero of this story—” “This isn’t a story!” “Everything is a story.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You have to pretend that you have an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The way you were before… Simon Snow, there wasn’t a day when I believed we’d both live through it.“
“Though what?”
“Life. You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I’d wake up every morning and think, ‘This will end in flames.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“He probably thinks pixies are a lesser species. Half-sentient, like gnomes and Internet trolls.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Its good things that hurt when you are missing them.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“This isn't going off,' I think. 'This is going out.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“If Penelope were her, I'd tell her she's wrong about me. She thinks I solve everything with my sword. But apparently, I can also solve things with my mouth -- because, so far, every time I lean into Baz, he shuts up and closes his eyes.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Nobody tells anyone anything in my family. You just know. You learn to know.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You have to pretend that you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can’t carry on at all.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On