Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 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. “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

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

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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. “We’ll make our own enough.”

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

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459. “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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460. “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.”

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461. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

463. “She was all he could see.”

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464. “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

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

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467. “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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468. “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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469. “I mean it like “Jack and Diane.” Like, “Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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471. “Dear Park, I like you so much. You have really beautiful cheeks.”

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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.”

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473. “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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474. “Every time he moved, he had a reason.”

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475. “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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476. “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

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

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479. “I feel sorry for you, and I’m going to be your friend.” “I don’t want to be your friend,” Cath said as sternly as she could. “I like that we’re not friends.” “Me, too,” Reagan said. “I’m sorry you ruined it by being so pathetic.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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481. “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

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

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483. “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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484. “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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485. “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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486. “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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487. “He had the smilingest face she’d ever seen.”

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

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490. “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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491. “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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492. “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

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

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

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

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

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497. “Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.”

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498. “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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499. “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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500. “You could have died. Right there. In Utah.” “You make it sound like that’s worse than regular dying.”

— Rainbow Rowell