Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “No matter what happens,” Park said, “I love you.”

— Rainbow Rowell

352. “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

353. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

354. “Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?”

— Rainbow Rowell

355. “Light a match inside your heart.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

357. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

358. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

361. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

362. “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

363. “Maybe there’s no such thing as enough.”

— Rainbow Rowell

364. “It’s up to us to not lose this.”

— Rainbow Rowell

365. “Which means you have to have a good vocabulary to do magic. And you have to be able to think on your feet. And be brave enough to speak up. And have an ear for a solid turn of phrase.”

— Rainbow Rowell

366. “Life is the horse.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

369. “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

370. “No, no, no, Lincoln thought.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

372. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

373. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

375. “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

376. “Have you met Cather?” Levi said to Reagan, his face still shining with amusement. “She spits hot fire.”

— Rainbow Rowell

377. “The point is – I get to do this, Seth. I get to talk to guys. Do you want me to spend the rest of my life alone?” “No. Don’t be ridiculous.” “Then back off.” He leaned forward, resting an elbow on her armrest. “Are you lonely, Georgie? Do you have needs?”

— Rainbow Rowell

378. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

379. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

381. “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...”

— Rainbow Rowell

382. “I know I usually come down here to tell you I’m sorry. But I think today I want to tell you that I’m going to be all right. Don’t let me be one of the things that keeps you from peace, Mother. I’m all right.”

— Rainbow Rowell

383. “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

384. “Back in college, Neal had thought about joining the military; he would have been really good at the part where you have to deliver terrible news or execute a heartbreaking order without betraying how much it was costing you. Neal’s face could fly the Enola Gay.”

— Rainbow Rowell

385. “Sometimes I’m glad Penny wears glasses; her eye contact is so fierce, it’s good to have a buffer.”

— Rainbow Rowell

386. “Neal, I want to ruin you for everyone.”

— Rainbow Rowell

387. “She saw him after seventh hour in a place she’d never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be.”

— Rainbow Rowell

388. “Everything true was too hard to write.”

— Rainbow Rowell

389. “You’d rather be broken than move on.”

— Rainbow Rowell

390. “IDEA... if your bored and you miss me you should write some dirty fan fiction about us. you can read it to me later. great idea right?”

— Rainbow Rowell

391. “None of his friend’s parents were still together, and in every case that seemed like the number one thing that had gone wrong with her friends’ lives.”

— Rainbow Rowell

392. “I like you,” I say. “And I don’t even care that you don’t like me – I’m used to it, I wouldn’t know what to do if you did.”

— Rainbow Rowell

393. “I was born at the wrong time,” she said. “And in the wrong climate. It should be 1983, and I should be sitting outside Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.”

— Rainbow Rowell

394. “I usually am right. It’s just good sense to go through life assuming that I am. It’s the law of averages. Better to assume I’m always right and occasionally be wrong than to fiddle about doubting myself all the time, saying to everyone, “Yes, but what do you think?”

— Rainbow Rowell

395. “But I think Simon might be the only person who really loved the Mage. I know he killed him, but he’s probably the person who was saddest to see him go.”

— Rainbow Rowell

396. “He was a roommate-in-law.”

— Rainbow Rowell

397. “He probably thinks pixies are a lesser species. Half-sentient, like gnomes and Internet trolls.”

— Rainbow Rowell

398. “She almost sounded sane... If you didn’t know that she was acting rational on the far side of crazy.”

— Rainbow Rowell

399. “I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.”

— Rainbow Rowell

400. “She was tired of being the one who cried.”

— Rainbow Rowell