Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

253. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

254. “God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

258. “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

259. “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

260. “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

261. “Carry on, Simon.”

— Rainbow Rowell

262. “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

263. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

268. “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

269. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

270. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

271. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

273. “And one will come to end us. And one will bring his fall. Let the greatest power of powers reign. May it save us all.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

276. “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

277. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

280. “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

281. “It’s like being a fairy named Mary,” he goes on. “Or a vampire named Gampire,” I say. “Gampire isn’t even a proper name, Snow. You’re terrible at this game.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

283. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

286. “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

287. “Back to missing you.”

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

— Rainbow Rowell

289. “Well, I’m writing everything that isn’t my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that’s all that will be left in my mind.”

— Rainbow Rowell

290. “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

291. “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

292. “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

293. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

294. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

296. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

298. “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

299. “Say something, so that I don’t feel so stupid.′ ‘Don’t feel stupid, Park,’ she said. ‘Nice.”

— Rainbow Rowell

300. “Did the bearded lady get excited when cute guys came to her freak show?”

— Rainbow Rowell