Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Because they weren’t wings. They were bones and feathers and magic – and will.”

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

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453. “And he knew it was crappy, but he was kind of grateful that people like that existed. Because people like Steve and Tina existed, too, and they needed to be fed. if it wasn’t that redhead, it was going to be somebody else. And if it wasn’t somebody else, it was going to be Park.”

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

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455. “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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456. “Her mom had turned Georgie’s childhood bedroom into the pug trophy room as soon as she graduated from high school – which was irritating because Georgie didn’t actually move out of the house until she graduated from college.”

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457. “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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458. “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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459. “The room around us is gone, and the stars feel close enough to touch.”

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460. “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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461. “Cath liked Levi. A lot. She liked looking at him. She liked listening to him – though sometimes she hated listening to him talk to other people. She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn’t cost him anything, like he’d never run out. He made everything look so easy.”

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462. “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.”

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463. “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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464. “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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465. “Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach.”

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466. “Maybe there’s no such thing as enough.”

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

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468. “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.”

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469. “Levi’s eyebrows were pornographic.”

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470. “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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471. “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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472. “He wondered if people who worked nights went on dates during the day.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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479. “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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480. “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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481. “Everything is the story.”

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482. “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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483. “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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484. “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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485. “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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486. “They were just stories, but stories weren’t just anything.”

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487. “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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488. “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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489. “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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490. “The me that’s me right now is YOURS.”

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491. “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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492. “He cocks an eyebrow and stares at me, like figuring out what’s wrong with me is something he’ll never have enough time for.”

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493. “Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.”

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

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495. “I want to live in your head.”

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

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

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

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

— Rainbow Rowell