Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Those were my fifth-year fantasies: kisses and blood and Snow ridding the world of me.”

— Rainbow Rowell

352. “I want to touch you. Hold you. I want to sit right next to you, even when there are other options.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

354. “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

355. “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

356. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

358. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

360. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

362. “Tell me about it, he said. Tell me why you’re so unhappy. It’s just everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at it is sort of thing that matters there.”

— Rainbow Rowell

363. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

365. “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

366. “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

367. “You saved my life. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and not I’m yours.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

369. “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

370. “Light a match inside your heart.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

373. “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

374. “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

375. “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

376. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

377. “And one will come to end us. And one will bring his fall. Let the greatest power of powers reign. May it save us all.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

380. “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

381. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

384. “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

385. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

387. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

391. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

396. “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

397. “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

398. “Sunshine gives me a headache.”

— Rainbow Rowell

399. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell