Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Was that codependence? Or was it just marriage?”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

453. “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

454. “She had spent so much time thinking about what it would be like to finally come home and how much she missed everybody – she thought they’d throw her a ticker tape parade. She thought it would be a big hugfest.”

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455. “Money and time, those were the two things that he always heard people complaining about, and he had plenty of both.”

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456. “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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457. “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.”

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

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

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460. “We’ll make our own enough.”

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461. “It’s still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.”

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

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463. “Are you sad?” she asked him. Sincerely. “Do you need to go home and listen to all your mixed tapes and think about this chapter of your life closing?”

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464. “They’d had this conversation in the cafeteria. They were waiting by the door so that Georgie could casually get in line behind Jay Anselmo, who was two years older than they were, really into No Doubt and competitive car stereos, and who would undoubtedly ignore her. “What’s.”

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465. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

468. “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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469. “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.”

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470. “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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471. “Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.”

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472. “His eyes were that colour you can’t see in the rainbow. Indigo.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

474. “I want to live in your head.”

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

478. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

480. “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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481. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

482. “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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483. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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487. “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

488. “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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489. “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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490. “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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491. “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

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

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494. “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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495. “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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496. “He wondered if people who worked nights went on dates during the day.”

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell