Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I erase the word and start over. I’m working on the “Everything we still don’t” list. I’m tempted to write: everything important and also: whether Simon Snow is actually gay. And: whether I’ll live forever.”

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

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453. “Best of all, she had Park’s songs in her head – and in her chest, somehow.”

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454. “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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455. “You can have it if you want it, if you’re willing to pay for it. Save your money.” “I don’t have any money,” he’d said in the ninth grade. “Be thankful, Lincoln. Money is a cruel thing. It’s the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love.” “How does money come between you and the people you love?” “It’s coming between us right now.”

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456. “Neal, I want to ruin you for everyone.”

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457. “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.”

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458. “She was all he could see.”

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459. “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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460. “That’s what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection.”

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

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462. “I want to live in your head.”

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

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464. “The world’s sweetest dimples and the boy who never laughs.”

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

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466. “Nick had cared about the story; Cath hadn’t. She’d cared about the writing. About the magic third thing that lived between them when they were working together.”

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

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

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469. “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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470. “The girl jumped into his arms, and he swung her in an ecstatic, lop-sided circle. The joy of it hit Georgie like a shock wave. The boy’s duffel bag fell to the ground. His face disappeared in the girl’s long, wavy dark hair.”

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471. “It’s the good things that’ll drive you mad with missing them.”

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

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474. “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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475. “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.”

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476. “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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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. “I still wish you’d get a dog,” she said. “I’d never remember to feed it.” “Maybe we could train it to feed you.”

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

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481. “He liked being near that, that kind of brave and crazy.”

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

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483. “As long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn’t going to happen. Like anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.”

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484. “Maybe this was why Neal always had his guards up. His eyes, unguarded, could burn tunnels through mountains.”

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485. “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.”

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486. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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491. “As soon as the room was mostly empty, she lifted up her T-shirt and ran her hand along the stretch marks and the ropy scar under her belly. Still there.”

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

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

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495. “Everything is the story.”

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496. “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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497. “Troy and Sandra and Gabe acted out a lightsaber battle that brought tears to Elena’s eyes, probably because they were all three singing the John Williams music.”

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498. “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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499. “I give up,” Baz whined. “I’m going to go drown myself in the moat. Tell my mother I always knew she loved me best.”

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500. “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.”

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