Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “I wouldn’t even have to think about it, Neal. I’d choose you. I’d choose you again and again and again. Seth is my best friend-I think he’ll always be my best friend-but you’re my future. You’re my whole life.”

— Rainbow Rowell

302. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

305. “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

306. “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

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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314. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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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. “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

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

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331. “I’m not complaining about my cell phone – all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don’t want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.”

— Rainbow Rowell

332. “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

333. “It felt like the most important thing now was to run, the most important place was away.”

— Rainbow Rowell

334. “No matter what happens,” Park said, “I love you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

335. “For the first time in weeks, Park didn’t have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.”

— Rainbow Rowell

336. “These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.”

— Rainbow Rowell

337. “Cath had a weird thing about sharing drinks, but she decided it would be stupid to say anything. She’d already kissed him.”

— Rainbow Rowell

338. “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

339. “No, no, no, Lincoln thought.”

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340. “Back to missing you.”

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341. “He smiles, and he’s made of trouble.”

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342. “Like punk?” She wrinkled her nose. She could stand a few Dead Milkmen songs, but other than that, she hated Park’s punk music. “I.”

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343. “Life is the horse.”

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

— Rainbow Rowell

345. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

346. “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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347. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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350. “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