Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Really,” Neal said. That’s what he always said when he didn’t have anything to say and he just wanted her to keep talking. There was a smile that went with it, sort of a mocking smile that would have seemed mean if his eyes weren’t shining.”

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452. “Will you read this? I think maybe it sucks. Or maybe it’s awesome. It’s probably awesome. Tell me it’s awesome, okay? Unless it sucks.” – Nick.”

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453. “And cried. I must have looked wildly pathetic because he said, “I have some French fries in there if you want them.” I thought that was such a weird thing to offer, but frankly, I’m exactly the sort of person to be comforted by French fries, so I ate them.”

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454. “I may not take my clothes seriously. I may not have brushed or even washed my hair today. But I pronounce the word ‘music’ with a capital ‘M.’ Like God.”

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455. “You’re still Simon Snow. You’re still the hero of this story – ” “This isn’t a story!” “Everything is a story.”

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456. “At some point Levi had put his left arm around her and pulled her back against his chest – she’d been fidgeting and rubbing her back on the wall, and Levi just reached behind her and pulled her into him.”

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457. “I mean it like “Jack and Diane.” Like, “Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.”

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458. “The arguments in her brain were like a swarm of people running from a burning building and getting stuck in the door.”

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459. “Hey, Cath. Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?”

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460. “Or maybe I work at Starbucks,” he said. She snorted. “Really?” “Really,” he said, still smiling. “Someday you’ll need health insurance, and you won’t think working at Starbucks is funny.”

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461. “Every time he moved, he had a reason.”

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462. “Park looked good in black. It made him look like he was drawn in charcoal. Thick, arched, black eyebrows. Short, black eyelashes. High, shining cheeks.”

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463. “I started making my list, my good things list, when I was 11, and I should probably cross a few things off, but that’s harder than you’d think.”

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464. “You didn’t bring it up. It’s always on my mind. In a way it’s good to talk about it. To get some of it out of my heart, even for a minute.”

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465. “Sometimes it seemed like she would never be able to give Park anything like what he’d given her. It was like he dumped all this treasure on her every morning without even thinking about it, without any sense of what it was worth.”

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466. “He put on a short-sleeved white T-shirt and tried not to flex when he checked his reflection in the mirror. Is this what women felt like when they put on miniskirts?”

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467. “It’s death,” I say, refusing to raise my voice, “because when you’re hungry, you can’t stop thinking about eating other people.”

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468. “The kind of guy you can picture negotiating for hostages and also jumping away from an explosion.”

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469. “She was the worst kind of out of control–the kind that thinks it’s just fine, thanks.”

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470. “She just wants me in her life now because I was always there before. And she’s holding onto the past as desperately as I’m trying to run from it.”

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471. “Seth, it’s seven o’clock.” Nine in Omaha. Or maybe 1998 in Omaha.”

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472. “Was that codependence? Or was it just marriage?”

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473. “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.”

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474. “I don’t think there’s enough of her left.”

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475. “You know my mum. ‘Information wants to be free.’ ‘There’s no such thing as a bad thought.’ Our library is practically as big as Watford’s and better stocked. If you wanted to find something dangerous in there, I’m sure you could.”

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476. “How do you serve dinner, in ice cube trays?”

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477. “I think your mother has Asperger’s,” Georgie had said to Neal. “They didn’t get Asperger’s in the ’50s.” “I’m just saying maybe she’s on the spectrum.” “She’s just a math teacher.”

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478. “Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.”

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479. “It’s always fire with Baz. I can’t believe he hasn’t incinerated me yet. Or burned me at the stake.”

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480. “Tell me more about the mountains, Georgie said, because she wasn’t really sure what to ask. Because ′ tell me where I went wrong’ might break the spell.”

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481. “I don’t suppose I ever had the choices I thought I did.”

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482. “I like to work late because I don’t like to work early – and I have to work sometime.”

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483. “Even now, ten states away and half done with her, this Neal still thought she was better that he deserved. More than he’d ever expected life would give him.”

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484. “He talks about you like you’re something he found in a natural history museum.”

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485. “And sometimes holes want to get bigger, but Baz was wrong – sometimes they just want to be filled.”

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486. “The girl looked older than Cath. Even with her eyes closed. Levi’s other hand was tangled in her long, blond hair, and he was kissing her with his mouth smiling and open. He made it look so easy.”

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487. “His grandparents had a light on, on their front porch, and Eleanor’s face caught every bit of it. She looked like she should be married to the man in the moon.”

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488. “Agatha’s mum gives me nice clothes for Christmas, and her dad talks to me about my future like I’m not going to die in a ball of fire.”

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489. “You could have died. Right there. In Utah.” “You make it sound like that’s worse than regular dying.”

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490. “He had the smilingest face she’d ever seen.”

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491. “I never thought there was a path that would lead to both of us alive.”

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492. “It’s unnecessarily grandiose to use an Open Sesame on the doors, but I do it anyway because I know everyone will be in the dining hall, and I may as well make an entrance.”

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493. “Why are there merwolves in the moat anyway?” Simon flushed. “This is a school.”

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494. “I shouldn’t need proof, but proof can be very reassuring.”

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495. “Aeroplanes don’t stop being aeroplanes when they’re on the ground.”

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496. “I want to live in your head.”

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497. “Everything is the story.”

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498. “He wondered if people who worked nights went on dates during the day.”

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499. “Enough about me and my tapeworm. How are you?”

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500. “But he’s the most familiar thing in this house, and I fall asleep better, listening to Baz breathe, than I have since winter break started.”

— Rainbow Rowell