Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “The whole world is dancing with you.”

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

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

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305. “Yesterday happens.”

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

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

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

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310. “She didn’t know there were things worse than selfish.”

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

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313. “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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314. “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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315. “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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316. “I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other and then take it back.”

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

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318. “Noel was her very best friend – even if she wasn’t his. Noel was her person.”

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319. “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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320. “You shouldn’t be,” Neal said. He lifted his chin and looked directly in her eyes. For the second time in five minutes. For the second time ever. “I’m here because I knew you’d be here. Because I hoped you would be.”

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321. “Reagan wore eyeliner all the way around her eyes. Like a hard-ass Kate Middleton. And even though she was bigger than most girls – big hips, big chest, wide shoulders – she carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be. And everyone else went along with it – including Levi, and all the other guys who hung out in their room while Reagan finished getting ready.”

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322. “You have too many friends,” she’ll say. “I’m pretty sure that’s not possible. And, anyway, I wouldn’t call them all ‘friends.’” “There are only so many hours in the day, Simon. Two, three people – that’s all any of us have time for.” “There are more people than that in your immediate family, Penny.” “I know. It’s a struggle.”

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323. “Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away?”

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324. “Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.”

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325. “Even in a million different pieces, Eleanor could still feel Park holding her hand.”

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

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327. “There was just no fear in her.”

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328. “The sympathy in his face was painful. “This doesn’t sound like a decision, Cath. This sounds like giving up.”

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329. “Life is the horse.”

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330. “Rome wasn’t built on mutual admiration.”

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331. “I want to touch you. Hold you. I want to sit right next to you, even when there are other options.”

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332. “Every night when I’m sure everyone is asleep, I sit on my bed and laugh maniacally.”

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333. “I don’t want to kiss a stranger. I’m not interested in lips out of context.”

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334. “You know,” he said, “I keep wanting to say that it’s like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it’s more like someone else ate Simon Snow – like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet – and then threw up in here.”

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335. “Penny says she’d like the Mage’s Men better if there were a few women among them.”

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336. “Tell me about it, he said. Tell me why you’re so unhappy. It’s just everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at it is sort of thing that matters there.”

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337. “It’s a hard spell and an old spell, and it works only if you understand the Great Vowel Shift of the Sixteenth Century – and if you’re stupidly in love.”

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338. “You didn’t realize how much work everyone else put into holding themselves upright until you saw Levi leaning against a wall. He looked like he was leaning on something even when he wasn’t.”

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339. “She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn’t scared of doing it wrong.”

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340. “No one ever calls me Tyrannus. My mother insisted on it because it’s a family name, but my father hates it.”

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341. “I’ll always be less than you,” he whispers. “I know; it’s a dream come true.”

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342. “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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343. “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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344. “How can you thank someone for the Cure? Or the X-Men? Sometimes it felt like she’d always be in his debt. And then she realized that Park didn’t know about the Beatles.”

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345. “He caught her by surprise, and before she could help herself, her heart was breaking for him. Like it didn’t have anything better to break over.”

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346. “He nudged his nose against hers, and their mouths fell sleepily together, already soft and open.”

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347. “This isn’t like me. I don’t feel like myself. The old me thought she would always prevail because she was always right. I’d like some of that confidence back now. Even if it did come with a heaping helping of ignorance.”

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348. “I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.”

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349. “She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline – maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents’ generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.”

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350. “We don’t turn into pumpkins at midnight.”

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