Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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2. “So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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3. “Eleanor was right. 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

4. “People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.”

— Rainbow Rowell

5. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.”

— Rainbow Rowell

6. “I love you more than I hate everything else.”

— Rainbow Rowell

7. “Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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8. “Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination.”

— Rainbow Rowell

9. “Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I’m a complete disaster.”

— Rainbow Rowell

10. “October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”

— Rainbow Rowell

11. “It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favorite clothes – cardigans and tights and leg warmers.”

— Rainbow Rowell

12. “I think I can live without you, but it won’t be any kind of life.”

— Rainbow Rowell

13. “I choose you over everyone.”

— Rainbow Rowell

14. “To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”

— Rainbow Rowell

15. “Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”

— Rainbow Rowell

16. “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

17. “Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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18. “Wasn’t that the point of life? To find someone to share it with? And if you got that part right, how far wrong could you go? If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn’t everything else just scenery?”

— Rainbow Rowell

19. “There are moments when you can’t believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.”

— Rainbow Rowell

20. “Nothing was dirty. With Park. Nothing could be shameful. Because Park was the sun, and that was the only way Eleanor could think to explain it.”

— Rainbow Rowell

21. “She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.”

— Rainbow Rowell

22. “Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.”

— Rainbow Rowell

23. “You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.”

— Rainbow Rowell

24. “I’d rather be broken than wasted.”

— Rainbow Rowell

25. “Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you’re still not better off without it.”

— Rainbow Rowell

26. “This is why I can’t be with Levi. Because I’m the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can’t even read.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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27. “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

Featured in: Soulmate Quotes

28. “I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”

— Rainbow Rowell

29. “It’s so easy for someone else to say, ‘Don’t worry. Everything’s going to be all right.’ Why not say it? It doesn’t cost anything. It doesn’t mean anything. No one will hold you to it if you’re wrong.”

— Rainbow Rowell

30. “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

31. “He’d stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.”

— Rainbow Rowell

32. “There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.”

— Rainbow Rowell

33. “I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it.”

— Rainbow Rowell

34. “Trauma affects memory, my therapist said. Your brain closes off painful corridors. “That sounds good to me,” I told her. “Thank you, brain.”

— Rainbow Rowell

35. “Levi’s eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been “up to his room” a long time ago.”

— Rainbow Rowell

36. “That’s because you ooze preemptive leave-me-alone death rays.”

— Rainbow Rowell

37. “My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.”

— Rainbow Rowell

38. “The first time he’d held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.”

— Rainbow Rowell

Featured in: Firsts Quotes, Romance Quotes

39. “Why are you lying awake, thinking that you’re a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can’t sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.”

— Rainbow Rowell

40. “I don’t have to forgive you, Cath said. It’s not like that with you. You’re just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

42. “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

43. “You look different. You look unsettling.’ ‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up.”

— Rainbow Rowell

44. “He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who’d be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.”

— Rainbow Rowell

45. “Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.”

— Rainbow Rowell

46. “Cath couldn’t stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.”

— Rainbow Rowell

47. “I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”

— Rainbow Rowell

48. “And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.”

— Rainbow Rowell

49. “Things get better – hurt less – over time. If you let them.”

— Rainbow Rowell

50. “That was the beauty in stacking up words – they got cheaper, the more you had of them.”

— Rainbow Rowell