Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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.”

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

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

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204. “She’s like Eeyore if Eeyore hung out with goats all the time instead of letting Pooh and Piglet cheer him up.”

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205. “Maybe I don’t have that sort of love in me – maybe I’m defective.”

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206. “Because it doesn’t matter to me, Park. If you like me, she said, I swear to God, nothing else matters.”

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207. “But Park’s parents loved each other. They kissed each other on the mouth, no matter who was watching. What were the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back?”

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208. “She wasn’t,” Heather said, crying now. “Pugs are bred to be useless. We have to take her to the vet.”

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209. “That’s what people say – ‘it’s not goodbye’ – when they’re too afraid to face what they’re really feeling. I’m not going to see you tomorrow, Park – I don’t know when I’ll see you again. That deserves more than ’it’s not goodbye.”

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210. “Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn’t recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn’t recognize the formatting. When he touched Eleanor’s hand, he recognized her. He knew.”

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211. “But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write – he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.”

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212. “You look like you, he said, you with the volume turned up.”

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213. “Things she knew now, that she hadn’t known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.”

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214. “The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier’s front door. I’m here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.”

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215. “It was nice to meet you,” Levi said, and you’d have to really know Levi to know that he didn’t mean it.”

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216. “If your as good as your word, words should be good enough.”

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217. “Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.”

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218. “God, she wanted to tackle him and roll around in him like a cat in a field of daisies.”

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219. “Why did you tell me it was just a kiss?” she asked, waiting for her voice to break. “I don’t even care about that other girl. I mean, I do, but not as much. Why was your first instinct to tell me that what happened between you and me didn’t matter? And why should I believe you now when you say that it did? Why should I believe anything you say?”

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220. “He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that, because she was kind. And before that, because she was smart and funny. Because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. Because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. Because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she’d have to say about it – how many stars she’d give it and why.”

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221. “I am going to die kissing Simon Snow. Aleister Crowley, I’m living a charmed life.”

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222. “All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people’s. Like they weren’t just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.”

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223. “I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me... Cather.” He kissed her mouth. “Look at me.” She did. “I choose you over everyone.”

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224. “And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there’s no place to just be a nerd among other nerds – without being reminded that you’re the nerd.”

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225. “I’ll cross the sky for you.”

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226. “I lean into him, because I’m cold and he’s always warm. And because I like to remind him that I’m not afraid of him.”

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227. “The other kids might hate Eleanor for being big and weird, but they weren’t going to hate on her for having a broken family and a broke-down house. That was kind of the rule around here.”

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228. “It made sense that Tina was in Eleanor’s gym class – because gym was an extension of hell, and Tina was definetly a demon.”

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229. “She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.”

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230. “Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.”

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231. “Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.”

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232. “You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten – in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.”

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233. “I’m not going anywhere, Noel.” “You are, and it’s okay. Just... I need you to take me with you.”

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234. “Yeah... I’m embarrassed that I held on for s long. That I really thought we could go on like we were.”

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235. “She didn’t want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.”

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236. “He swallows. Snow has the longest neck and the showiest swallow I’ve ever seen. His chin juts out and his Adam’s apple catches – it’s a whole scene.”

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237. “Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can’t plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don’t happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?”

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238. “She was the only person in class who read her poem like it wasn’t an assignment. She recited it like it was a living thing. Like something she was letting out. You couldn’t look away from her as long as she was talking.”

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239. “Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach.”

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240. “Go on, then,” he says. “Carry on, Simon.”

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241. “That’s why people get in a convertible and hit the road without a map. That’s the promise. That you’ll finally see yourself when you don’t recognize the scenery.”

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242. “He looked like himself, Eleanor thought, but bolder. Like Park with the volume turned way up.”

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243. “She was dressed like she wanted people to look at her. Or maybe like she didn’t get what a mess she was.”

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244. “You shouldn’t reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you’re setting.”

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245. “He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.”

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246. “I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.”

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247. “Maybe she didn’t want him like he wanted her. But even if she wanted him half as much...”

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248. “He didn’t even think Tina really liked him, deep down. It was more like she didn’t want him to get over her. And not-so-deep down, Park didn’t want Tina to get over him.”

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249. “With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.”

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250. “Read to me, sweetheart.”

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