Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can’t plan for. Those are things that just happen.”

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252. “I know that things will only get better if good people fight for what’s important.”

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253. “I just want him to shut up and stop talking like this. I just want him to get up and follow me out of here. I just want to be back at Watford in our room, knowing he’s there, and that he isn’t hurting anyone, and no one is hurting him.”

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254. “He’s coming into himself. And I’m coming apart.”

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

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256. “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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257. “Everybody likes Star Wars,” he said. “Everybody likes everything these days. The whole world is a nerd.”

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258. “I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too, at least one mountain. Is that too much to ask? And trees. Not a whole forest, necessarily. I’d settle for a thicket. Scenery. I want scenery!”

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259. “But I still didn’t let myself dwell on any of the good things, you know? It’s the good things that’ll drive you mad with missing them.”

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260. “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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261. “Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen – because you love each other.”

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262. “I just can’t pass the scones up if they’re there. They’re soft and light and a little bit salty. Sometimes I dream about them.”

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263. “She had a pair of vans he liked, with strawberries on them.”

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264. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

265. “Read to me, sweetheart.”

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266. “Sometimes, even when they were talking, they weren’t really talking. Sometimes they were just negotiating each other. Keeping each other posted.”

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

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268. “I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other and then take it back.”

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269. “There’s only of him, she thought, and he’s right here.”

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270. “Maybe she feels like a jerk about leaving him at Pitch Manor on Christmas Eve. I know I do. The vibe here is very, Let’s kill a virgin and write a great Led Zeppelin album.”

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271. “There’s nothing sadder than buying bananas one at a time.”

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272. “Carry on, Simon.”

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273. “She bent over to pick up her glasses. “Do you need those?” Reagan asked. “Yes” – Cath put them on – “I need them to keep me from becoming the girl in She’s All That.”

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274. “She was saying yes to the moment, not to him.”

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275. “Because we match.”

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276. “If you can’t trust people with nose rings to be open-minded, who’s left?”

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277. “You don’t know when you’re twenty-three. You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there.”

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278. “It doesn’t matter,” Reagan said. “He already likes you. I think he’s into the nerdy schoolgirl thing. He talks about you like you’re something he found in a natural history museum.”

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279. “I’m not ready for you to stop being my problem.”

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280. “Park didn’t say anything. He just held his comics open wide and turned the pages more slowly.”

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281. “I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes like someone who died but stayed in his body. And sometimes I feel like someone else died, like someone else sacrificed everything, so that I can live a normal life.”

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282. “Yesterday happens.”

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283. “I can tell she still finds me both loathsome and distasteful, but Rome wasn’t built on mutual admiration.”

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284. “When she smiled up at him, he felt his heart swell against the inside of his chest. He felt that way all the time now. Even when he was holding her, it felt like there was something inside of him trying to burst out and embrace her.”

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285. “Next time he summons me like a half-asred squirrel demon,” I said,“I’ll tell him so!”

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286. “Her dad wouldn’t even let her see the prequels. He said she was too young. And then, when she grew up, he said they were too terrible. “They’ll just corrupt your love of Star Wars,” he said. “I wish I could unsee them.”

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287. “And she thought about winning. About how she was letting this win, whatever this was – the crazy inside of her. Cath, zero. Crazy, one million.”

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288. “Passing Time was a show that captured all the angst of high school life – all the highs and lows, all the absurdities – and then made them higher and lower and more absurd.”

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289. “I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.”

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290. “At Watford, Magic is just the air we breathe. It’s not what separates us from each other; it’s what keeps us together.”

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291. “I mean, you heard Mark. If you just want to see the new Star Wars movie, you can buy your ticket online and then forget about it until show time. But if you want to wait in line, you wait in line, you know?”

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292. “I don’t like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I’ve never heard a phone ring before and I don’t know what’s supposed to happen next. Hello?”

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293. “Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she’d ever written about Baz or Simon’s chests. She’d written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi’s chest was a living thing.”

— Rainbow Rowell

294. “It’s not fate that brings people together. It’s people!”

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295. “The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.”

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296. “Have you ever seen an alpaca, Cather? They’re like the world’s most adorable llamas. Like, imagine the cutest llama that you can, and then just keep going.”

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297. “He tried again to remember what he’d thought the first time he saw her. He tried to remember how this had happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.”

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298. “Someone had given Georgie a magic phone and all she’d wanted to do with it is stay up late talking to her old boyfriend. If they’d given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let someone else kill Hitler.”

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299. “She smelled like gardenias. Plus something muskier, gardenias with carnal knowledge.”

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300. “For some reason, she didn’t want to read in front of him. It would be like letting him watch her eat.”

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