Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Quiero que todo el mundo te conozca. Eres la persona que me cae mejor del mundo entero.”

— Rainbow Rowell

152. “You couldn’t not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin.”

— Rainbow Rowell

153. “Park’s eyes got wide. well, sort of wide. Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time.”

— Rainbow Rowell

154. “I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn’t hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.”

— Rainbow Rowell

155. “What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back?”

— Rainbow Rowell

156. “It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.”

— Rainbow Rowell

157. “They agreed about everything important and argued about everything else.”

— Rainbow Rowell

158. “He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.”

— Rainbow Rowell

159. “Just because you love someone,” she said, “that doesn’t mean your lives will fit together.” “Nobody’s lives just fit together,” Neal said. “Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen – because you love each other.”

— Rainbow Rowell

160. “But you saved my life, and now I’m yours. The me that’s me right now is yours. Always.”

— Rainbow Rowell

161. “You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.”

— Rainbow Rowell

162. “Enough, Snow, I’m not the Queen.”

— Rainbow Rowell

163. “Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I’m hopelessly in love with him.”

— Rainbow Rowell

164. “It was Dr. Manning who first coined the term, I remember. He visited the hole in Lancashire and described it as ’an insidious humdrum, a mundanity that creeps into your very soul.”

— Rainbow Rowell

165. “That’s the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.”

— Rainbow Rowell

166. “Don’t bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It’s disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.”

— Rainbow Rowell

167. “Nobody’s lives just fit together,” Neal said. “Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen – because you love each other.”

— Rainbow Rowell

168. “I’ve loved him through worse. I’ve loved him hopelessly... So what’s a little less hope?”

— Rainbow Rowell

169. “He told me we were stars.”

— Rainbow Rowell

170. “Clark Kent doesn’t want to be famous. He doesn’t want people to look at him. If they really look at him, they’d see that he’s just Superman with glasses.”

— Rainbow Rowell

171. “Don’t say hello, Simon. Because then we’ll have to say good-bye, and I can’t stand good-byes.”

— Rainbow Rowell

172. “Baz!” I yell. “No! You’re flammable!” “So is everything!” he shouts back at me. “Baz!”

— Rainbow Rowell

173. “I only let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of crazy and socially inept, I’m a complete disaster.”

— Rainbow Rowell

174. “You’re so alive, Simon Snow. You got my share of it.”

— Rainbow Rowell

175. “Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome.”

— Rainbow Rowell

176. “Because I’m the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.”

— Rainbow Rowell

177. “She was pretty sure she’d thank him for saving her life. Not just yesterday, but, like practically every day since they’d met. If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?”

— Rainbow Rowell

178. “There’s no such thing as a wrong pizza,” Georgie said. “All pizzas are right from conception.”

— Rainbow Rowell

179. “We make sense together.”

— Rainbow Rowell

180. “Georgie. You cannot be jealous of Dawn – that’s like the sun being jealous of a lightbulb.”

— Rainbow Rowell

181. “I’m not the Chosen One,” he says. I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. “I choose you,” I say. “Simon Snow, I choose you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

182. “You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.”

— Rainbow Rowell

183. “Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.”

— Rainbow Rowell

184. “It’s good to see you girls spending time together,” she says. “It’s good to have a life that passes the Bechdel test.”

— Rainbow Rowell

185. “I didn’t know what I was missing before I met you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

186. “Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia’s out-of-control huge.”

— Rainbow Rowell

187. “What’s a Triangle House?” Cath asked. “It’s an engineering fraternity,” Wren said. “So they, like, get drunk and build bridges?” “They get drunk and design bridges. Want to come?”

— Rainbow Rowell

188. “Mom, do you find Tom Cruise attractive?” His mother set down her chisel. She looked at Lincoln as if she was trying to decide whether he was “Meadow Path” or lime. “Honey, do you find Tom Cruise attractive?” “Mom. No. Why would you ask that? Jesus.” “Why would you ask that?” “I asked if you found Tom Cruise attractive. I didn’t ask if you thought I was gay. Do you think I’m gay?”

— Rainbow Rowell

189. “There’s only one of him, she thought, and he’s right here. He knows I’ll like a song before I’ve heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me. There’s only one of him.”

— Rainbow Rowell

190. “In the right light, you are such a nerd.”

— Rainbow Rowell

191. “Words are very powerful.”

— Rainbow Rowell

192. “It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.”

— Rainbow Rowell

193. “But if you didn’t know about magic, if you were born Normal or just ignorant, and then you saw some magic – if you witnessed a miracle with your own eyes – would you just leave it be? If you got a glimpse into a secret world, would you pretend it hadn’t happened? Or would you spend the rest of your life trying to find a doorway?”

— Rainbow Rowell

194. “Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?”

— Rainbow Rowell

195. “I tend to write about my anxieties – it’s what I’m afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.”

— Rainbow Rowell

196. “Surviving monsters doesn’t make you monster-proof.”

— Rainbow Rowell

197. “When she sat down to write, she didn’t have to wade back into the story slowly, waiting to get used to the temperature.”

— Rainbow Rowell

198. “It’s like John Lennon writing with... Taylor Swift instead of Paul McCartney.”

— Rainbow Rowell

199. “She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice – a fetal smile – and it very nearly killed her.”

— Rainbow Rowell

200. “But I’m no good at apologizing. I always end up making it worse. I’ll say, “I’m sorry,” and I’ll be all sweet, and then once I’m forgiven, I’ll say, “But you really did start it.”

— Rainbow Rowell