Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “A relationship isn’t about the end. It’s about being together every step of the way.”

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

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

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

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357. “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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358. “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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359. “Have you met Cather?” Levi said to Reagan, his face still shining with amusement. “She spits hot fire.”

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

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

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

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363. “Light a match inside your heart.”

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364. “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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365. “No, no, no, Lincoln thought.”

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

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

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369. “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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370. “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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371. “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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372. “It’s up to us to not lose this.”

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

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375. “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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376. “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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377. “Then she kissed him. He loved it when she kissed him first.”

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378. “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.”

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379. “Sunshine gives me a headache.”

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

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381. “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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382. “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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383. “And the look on his face when he saw it. Like someone blew a horn and all his walls crumbled.”

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

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385. “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?”

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

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387. “He was a roommate-in-law.”

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

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

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391. “As long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn’t going to happen. Like anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.”

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392. “Levi was a black-and-white photograph in the dark. All pale skin, gray eyes, streaky hair...”

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

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

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

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398. “Bad things happen, and then they stop, but they keep on wreaking havoc inside of people.”

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399. “You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer.”

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

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