Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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.”

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

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

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

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355. “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.”

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356. “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.”

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357. “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.”

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

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359. “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.”

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360. “No, no, no, Lincoln thought.”

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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.”

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362. “Back to missing you.”

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

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364. “Life is the horse.”

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

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “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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370. “I don’t want to kiss a stranger. I’m not interested in lips out of context.”

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

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372. “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.”

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373. “Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?”

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

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375. “People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.”

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

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377. “He pulled her close, as close as he could. Like he didn’t care for the moment whether she could breathe. Like there were two of them and only one parachute.”

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378. “People who are jerks don’t get to decide whether they’re jerks. It’s left up to a jury of their peers.”

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379. “Sunshine gives me a headache.”

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380. “It’s like asking me, ‘How would you feel if you were a frog?’ Well, I wouldn’t be me then, would I? I’d be a frog. Do frogs even have feelings?”

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381. “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.”

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382. “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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383. “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.”

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384. “Looking at you was just like looking into the sun.”

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385. “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.”

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386. “Nothing ever ends.”

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387. “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?”

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388. “I love you so much. Too much. I feel like it’s going to spin me off my axis.”

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389. “He was a roommate-in-law.”

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

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391. “You can have it if you want it, if you’re willing to pay for it. Save your money.” “I don’t have any money,” he’d said in the ninth grade. “Be thankful, Lincoln. Money is a cruel thing. It’s the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love.” “How does money come between you and the people you love?” “It’s coming between us right now.”

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

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393. “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.”

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394. “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.”

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395. “You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you’ll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.”

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396. “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.”

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397. “That’s what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection.”

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

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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.”

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400. “Come on, Snow. Let’s see America.”

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