Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Aleister Crowley, I’m living a charmed life.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

303. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

305. “Because we match.”

— Rainbow Rowell

306. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

311. “The whole world is dancing with you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

314. “Yesterday happens.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

318. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

319. “There was just no fear in her.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

323. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

324. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

325. “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?”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

328. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

329. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

333. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

340. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

342. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

343. “Then she kissed him. He loved it when she kissed him first.”

— Rainbow Rowell

344. “Her mom had turned Georgie’s childhood bedroom into the pug trophy room as soon as she graduated from high school – which was irritating because Georgie didn’t actually move out of the house until she graduated from college.”

— Rainbow Rowell

345. “Sunshine gives me a headache.”

— Rainbow Rowell

346. “Hay otras persona en Internet. Es impresionante. Obtienes todos los beneficios de “otras personas” sin el color corporal y el contacto visial.”

— Rainbow Rowell

347. “I mean, if everything is already set in stone, why try? I prefer to think that we’re choosing in every moment what happens next.”

— Rainbow Rowell

348. “And the look on his face when he saw it. Like someone blew a horn and all his walls crumbled.”

— Rainbow Rowell

349. “It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

350. “I need you to be my person. I need to see you. And hear you. I need you to stay alive. And I need you to stop kissing other people just because they’re standing next to you when the ball drops.”

— Rainbow Rowell