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

352. “Light a match inside your heart.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

356. “Reagan wore eyeliner all the way around her eyes. Like a hard-ass Kate Middleton. And even though she was bigger than most girls – big hips, big chest, wide shoulders – she carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be. And everyone else went along with it – including Levi, and all the other guys who hung out in their room while Reagan finished getting ready.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

358. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

361. “I’m glad that you’re out there somewhere reading this, eventually reading this, it makes me feel better.”

— 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. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

365. “A relationship isn’t about the end. It’s about being together every step of the way.”

— Rainbow Rowell

366. “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

367. “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

368. “Am I going to die?” he asked. “I hope so,” Justin said.”

— Rainbow Rowell

369. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

372. “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?”

— Rainbow Rowell

373. “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

374. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

376. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

379. “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

380. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

381. “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?”

— Rainbow Rowell

382. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

384. “Sunshine gives me a headache.”

— Rainbow Rowell

385. “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?”

— Rainbow Rowell

386. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

388. “Nothing ever ends.”

— Rainbow Rowell

389. “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

390. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

392. “He was a roommate-in-law.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

396. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

398. “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

399. “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

400. “Hey, Cath. Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?”

— Rainbow Rowell