Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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.”

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

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

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304. “Back to missing you.”

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

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306. “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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307. “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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308. “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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309. “She smelled like gardenias. Plus something muskier, gardenias with carnal knowledge.”

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

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

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

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

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

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317. “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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318. “There was just no fear in her.”

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

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320. “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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321. “Rome wasn’t built on mutual admiration.”

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

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “Noel was her very best friend – even if she wasn’t his. Noel was her person.”

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

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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. “The whole world is dancing with you.”

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

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

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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.”

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

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336. “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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337. “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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338. “Under the dolls were books, a dozen or so, that her mother must have grabbed at random; she wouldn’t have known which were Eleanor’s favorites. Eleanor was glad to see Garp and Watership Down. It sucked that Oliver’s Story had made the cut, but Love Story hadn’t. And Little Men was there, but not Little Women or Jo’s Boys.”

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

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340. “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.”

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341. “Those were my fifth-year fantasies: kisses and blood and Snow ridding the world of me.”

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

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344. “Loving Simon isn’t something one does alone or once a year at a convention – for thousands of fans of all ages, loving Simon Snow is nothing less than a lifestyle.”

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345. “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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346. “He smiles, and he’s made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies.”

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347. “If it tries to take you,” Wren said, “I wont’ let go.”

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348. “He’s just a guy,” Reagan said. “Of course he’s different from you. You’re never going to find a guy who’s exactly like you – first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room...”

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349. “If you broke Elena’s heart, Star Wars would spill out.”

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350. “She didn’t have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Balloon.”

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