Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub.”

— Rainbow Rowell

452. “God, she was weird.”

— Rainbow Rowell

453. “Her dad was wrong about worrying. Cath liked to worry. It made her feel proactive, even when she was totally helpless.”

— Rainbow Rowell

454. “Because makeup is a lie.”

— Rainbow Rowell

455. “Imagine the humiliation of dying at The Cheesecake Factory.”

— Rainbow Rowell

456. “Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach.”

— Rainbow Rowell

457. “How could you possibly have a dark secret involving the Star Wars prequels? Are you responsible for Jar Jar Binks?”

— Rainbow Rowell

458. “Is it so bad?” he asked. “It’s not me.” “Of course it’s you.” “I just, I look like I’m in costume. Like I’m trying to be something that I’m not.” Like she was trying to be pretty and popular. It was the trying part that was so disgusting.”

— Rainbow Rowell

459. “Plus, I like to pray for things that seem possible. There are so many things that I pray for that seem almost too big even for God. It’s rewarding to pray for something that might actually happen.”

— Rainbow Rowell

460. “We’ll make our own enough.”

— Rainbow Rowell

461. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

462. “Why do we write fiction?” Professor Piper asked. Cath looked down at her notebook. To disappear.”

— Rainbow Rowell

463. “He tried not to love that she could recite scenes from Ghostbusters, that she liked kung fu movies and could name all of the original X-Men – because those seemed like reasons a guy would fall for a girl in a Kevin Smith movie.”

— Rainbow Rowell

464. “Fine,” he moped. “I hope you’re very happy together. Cute little hobbit couple with lots of roly-poly hobbit babies.” Georgie turned back to him, but didn’t stop walking away. “I’m not hobbity.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

466. “Baz takes me to a Starbucks to use the facilities, and when I come out – with a massive rainbow-striped Frappuccino – he’s shouting at Penny: “Thirty-one hours to San Diego?!” “That can’t be right,” Penny says. “That’s like driving from London to Moscow. Let me see.” Baz has been looking at her phone, and she takes it back. “But it’s the same country,” she says.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

468. “If it tries to take you, I won’t let go.”

— Rainbow Rowell

469. “Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date.”

— Rainbow Rowell

470. “She stood in front of the speakers instead and closed her eyes, not really dancing, just bouncing and whispering the lyrics. After the first verse, she was dancing.”

— Rainbow Rowell

471. “She was all he could see.”

— Rainbow Rowell

472. “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

473. “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

474. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

475. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

476. “You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.”

— Rainbow Rowell

477. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

478. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

480. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

485. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

486. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

487. “So this is what you look like when you’re keeping a giant secret from me – exactly the same as usual.”

— Rainbow Rowell

488. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

489. “The me that’s me right now is YOURS.”

— Rainbow Rowell

490. “Simon, imagine what we could do with your power and my spells. We could finish the Humdrum off by dinner – and then take on hunger and world peace.”

— Rainbow Rowell

491. “Like realizing toward the end of a logic puzzle that you’d made a mistake early on, and that there’s no way to reach the solution without starting over. Without erasing everything. Without throwing out all of your assumptions.”

— Rainbow Rowell

492. “They were just stories, but stories weren’t just anything.”

— Rainbow Rowell

493. “She wanted to cry all the way there, thinking about Neal’s sideways symmetrical mouth and the way he could freehand a perfectly straight line.”

— Rainbow Rowell

494. “What were they thinking when they scheduled this movie for December?” Troy said. “They weren’t thinking of us, I can tell you. May,” he said, shaking his head. “May is when you release a Star Wars movie. If this movie were a May movie, the line would already be around the block.”

— Rainbow Rowell

495. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

496. “Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

498. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

500. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell