“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“You have to live simply to survive happily.”
― The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
― The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
“A strange and baffling truth: that the people we're supposed to know best can turn out to be strangers, and that near strangers can feel so much like home.”
― Replica
― Replica
“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.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting.
When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.”
― Eleanor & Park
When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.”
― Eleanor & Park
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