How we cite our quotes:
Quote #1
She tried to put into words how it felt, what happened when it was good, when it was working, when the words were coming out of her before she knew what they were, bubbling up from her chest, like rhyming, like rapping, like jump-roping, she thought, jumping just before the rope hits your ankles. (2.139)
Check out what Rowell's doing with rhythm here—the tumble of words illustrates their meaning. We love the rapid succession of "rhyming/rapping/roping." Just because it's prose doesn't mean it can't also be poetry.
Quote #2
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes. (10.3)
She's also drowning in the expectations of her new writing teacher, who's pushing for the words that don't come to her as easily as Simon Snow stories.
Quote #3
"The whole point of fanfiction," she said, "Is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them...You can stay in this world, this world you love, as long as you want, as long as you keep thinking of new stories—" (11.291)
In Cath's case, rewriting the rules means rewriting the main characters' sexuality. In her world, Baz and Simon are boyfriends.