Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “You shouldn’t reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you’re setting.”

— Rainbow Rowell

252. “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

253. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

255. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

259. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

262. “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

263. “Snow’s table manners are atrocious – it’s like watching a wild dog eat. A wild dog you’d like to slip the tongue.”

— Rainbow Rowell

264. “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

265. “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

266. “Carry on, Simon.”

— Rainbow Rowell

267. “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

268. “Read to me, sweetheart.”

— Rainbow Rowell

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

276. “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

277. “Aleister Crowley, I’m living a charmed life.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

279. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

289. “Back to missing you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

290. “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

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291. “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

292. “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

293. “People who are jerks don’t get to decide whether they’re jerks. It’s left up to a jury of their peers.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

296. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

298. “Because we match.”

— Rainbow Rowell

299. “You saved my life. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and not I’m yours.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell