Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “He had green eyes. And skin the color of sunshine through honey.”

— Rainbow Rowell

52. “Shut that thing down,” Nick said. “You’re corrupting my creative centers with static.” “That’s what she said,” Cath said, closing her laptop.”

— Rainbow Rowell

53. “There’s no magic here, but that’s okay – there’s no magic left in me.”

— Rainbow Rowell

54. “Emergency dance party – go away.”

— Rainbow Rowell

55. “You’re never going to find a guy who’s exactly like you – first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.”

— Rainbow Rowell

56. “I didn’t know love could leave the lights on all the time.”

— Rainbow Rowell

57. “It’s okay that you’re not okay. Whatever you’re feeling is okay.”

— Rainbow Rowell

58. “Cath wished she didn’t use the word “just” so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.”

— Rainbow Rowell

59. “You’re a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.”

— Rainbow Rowell

60. “A little manic was what their house ran on.”

— Rainbow Rowell

61. “You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.”

— Rainbow Rowell

62. “My mother says you should never have more people in your life than you could defend from a hungry rakshasa.”

— Rainbow Rowell

63. “There are other people on the Internet. It’s awesome. You get all the benefits of ‘other people’ without the body odor and the eye contact.”

— Rainbow Rowell

64. “I object to every single thing you just said.”

— Rainbow Rowell

65. “She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.”

— Rainbow Rowell

66. “I like to dance.”

— Rainbow Rowell

67. “I don’t know if I even believe in that anymore. The right guy. The perfect guy. The one. I’ve lost faith in “the”. How do you feel about “a” and “an”? Indifferent. So you’re considering a life without articles?”

— Rainbow Rowell

68. “And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you?”

— Rainbow Rowell

69. “I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’ ‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.”

— Rainbow Rowell

70. “I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

71. “The me that’s me right now is yours. Always.”

— Rainbow Rowell

72. “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I’d wake up every morning and think, ‘This will end in flames.”

— Rainbow Rowell

73. “I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”

— Rainbow Rowell

74. “The strange thing about seeing someone for first time in nine years is the way they look totally different, just for a second, a split second, and then they look at you the way they always have, as if no time has passed between you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

75. “You were the centre of my universe and everything else spun around you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

76. “He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.”

— Rainbow Rowell

77. “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

78. “He’s not a monster. He’s just a villain. He’s not a villain. He’s just a boy. I’m kissing a boy. I’m kissing Baz.”

— Rainbow Rowell

79. “Let hardship sharpen your blade.”

— Rainbow Rowell

80. “He’s a hole. He’s what’s left when I’m done. And sometimes holes want to get bigger, but Baz was wrong – sometimes they just want to be filled.”

— Rainbow Rowell

81. “Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.”

— Rainbow Rowell

82. “I couldn’t love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn’t love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that’s all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

83. “I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?”

— Rainbow Rowell

84. “It’s more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one – and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you’re right.”

— Rainbow Rowell

85. “If you couldn’t save your own life, was it even worth saving?”

— Rainbow Rowell

86. “Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don’t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.”

— Rainbow Rowell

87. “Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.”

— Rainbow Rowell

88. “And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.”

— Rainbow Rowell

89. “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

90. “Safety, stability – it’s an illusion. It’s a false god, Simon. It’s like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.”

— Rainbow Rowell

91. “She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice;.”

— Rainbow Rowell

92. “May you fight your own battles and forge your own wings.”

— Rainbow Rowell

93. “It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.”

— Rainbow Rowell

94. “The idea that you’re hard to love is ludicrous.”

— Rainbow Rowell

95. “Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.”

— Rainbow Rowell

96. “He’s lovely. A bit of a sad mess. Dull and pale and rough around the edges. But still so lovely.”

— Rainbow Rowell

97. “She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. Eleanor.”

— Rainbow Rowell

98. “Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months – they’re like dog months.”

— Rainbow Rowell

99. “It’s the good things that hurt when you’re missing them.”

— Rainbow Rowell

100. “Fighting doesn’t feel good anymore. It feels like breaking something because you don’t know how to fix it.”

— Rainbow Rowell