Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “At Watford, Magic is just the air we breathe. It’s not what separates us from each other; it’s what keeps us together.”

— Rainbow Rowell

252. “I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I’m not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.”

— Rainbow Rowell

253. “That’s one way I’ve bettered you. I was weak enough to give your son a chance. And look at him now – he may be dead, but he isn’t lost. He’s dark as a pitch and sharp as a blade, and he’s full of your magic. He’s a bonfire. He’d make you proud, Tasha.”

— Rainbow Rowell

254. “Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.”

— Rainbow Rowell

255. “Then Park reached up and wrapped one of her red curls around his honey finger. “Back to missing you,” he said, letting it go.”

— Rainbow Rowell

256. “Carry on, Simon.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

258. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

260. “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!”

— Rainbow Rowell

261. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

264. “A vampire who’s afraid of the dark, for Crowley’s sake.”

— Rainbow Rowell

265. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

268. “I’m glad that you’re out there somewhere reading this, eventually reading this, it makes me feel better.”

— Rainbow Rowell

269. “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?”

— Rainbow Rowell

270. “Magic separates us from the world; may nothing separate us from each other.”

— Rainbow Rowell

271. “I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”

— Rainbow Rowell

272. “Having kids sent a tornado through your marriage, then made you happy for the devastation. Even if you could rebuild everything just the way it was before, you’d never want to.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

274. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

275. “There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.” Professor Piper.”

— Rainbow Rowell

276. “Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can’t plan for. Those are things that just happen.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

279. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

281. “Yesterday happens.”

— Rainbow Rowell

282. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

285. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

286. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

287. “I don’t want to go back any further. I don’t want to miss any of the rest.”

— Rainbow Rowell

288. “I wouldn’t even have to think about it, Neal. I’d choose you. I’d choose you again and again and again. Seth is my best friend-I think he’ll always be my best friend-but you’re my future. You’re my whole life.”

— Rainbow Rowell

289. “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?”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

292. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

294. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

297. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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299. “Because we match.”

— Rainbow Rowell

300. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell