Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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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402. “Nothing ever ends.”

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

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405. “He was a roommate-in-law.”

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

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407. “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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408. “Everything true was too hard to write.”

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

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411. “She was all he could see.”

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412. “And cried. I must have looked wildly pathetic because he said, “I have some French fries in there if you want them.” I thought that was such a weird thing to offer, but frankly, I’m exactly the sort of person to be comforted by French fries, so I ate them.”

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413. “Imagine the humiliation of dying at The Cheesecake Factory.”

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

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415. “Because they weren’t wings. They were bones and feathers and magic – and will.”

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416. “If it tries to take you, I won’t let go.”

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417. “And he knew it was crappy, but he was kind of grateful that people like that existed. Because people like Steve and Tina existed, too, and they needed to be fed. if it wasn’t that redhead, it was going to be somebody else. And if it wasn’t somebody else, it was going to be Park.”

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418. “Sometimes it seemed like she would never be able to give Park anything like what he’d given her. It was like he dumped all this treasure on her every morning without even thinking about it, without any sense of what it was worth.”

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419. “I may not take my clothes seriously. I may not have brushed or even washed my hair today. But I pronounce the word ‘music’ with a capital ‘M.’ Like God.”

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420. “It’s the good things that’ll drive you mad with missing them.”

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421. “It’s death,” I say, refusing to raise my voice, “because when you’re hungry, you can’t stop thinking about eating other people.”

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422. “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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423. “He tried not to love that she could recite scenes from Ghostbusters, that she liked kung fu movies and could name all of the original X-Men – because those seemed like reasons a guy would fall for a girl in a Kevin Smith movie.”

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424. “The room around us is gone, and the stars feel close enough to touch.”

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425. “Really,” Neal said. That’s what he always said when he didn’t have anything to say and he just wanted her to keep talking. There was a smile that went with it, sort of a mocking smile that would have seemed mean if his eyes weren’t shining.”

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426. “Cath liked Levi. A lot. She liked looking at him. She liked listening to him – though sometimes she hated listening to him talk to other people. She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn’t cost him anything, like he’d never run out. He made everything look so easy.”

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427. “Why do we write fiction?” Professor Piper asked. Cath looked down at her notebook. To disappear.”

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428. “She stood in front of the speakers instead and closed her eyes, not really dancing, just bouncing and whispering the lyrics. After the first verse, she was dancing.”

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429. “Levi’s eyebrows were pornographic.”

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430. “You didn’t bring it up. It’s always on my mind. In a way it’s good to talk about it. To get some of it out of my heart, even for a minute.”

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431. “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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432. “Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach.”

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

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434. “You know my mum. ‘Information wants to be free.’ ‘There’s no such thing as a bad thought.’ Our library is practically as big as Watford’s and better stocked. If you wanted to find something dangerous in there, I’m sure you could.”

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435. “How do you serve dinner, in ice cube trays?”

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436. “Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date.”

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437. “Dear Park, I like you so much. You have really beautiful cheeks.”

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438. “I’m not sure what we’re doing, to be perfectly honest – but nothing’s on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we’ve solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem.”

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439. “Or maybe I work at Starbucks,” he said. She snorted. “Really?” “Really,” he said, still smiling. “Someday you’ll need health insurance, and you won’t think working at Starbucks is funny.”

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440. “Every time he moved, he had a reason.”

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441. “At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub.”

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442. “God, she was weird.”

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443. “Park looked good in black. It made him look like he was drawn in charcoal. Thick, arched, black eyebrows. Short, black eyelashes. High, shining cheeks.”

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444. “I started making my list, my good things list, when I was 11, and I should probably cross a few things off, but that’s harder than you’d think.”

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445. “Fine,” he moped. “I hope you’re very happy together. Cute little hobbit couple with lots of roly-poly hobbit babies.” Georgie turned back to him, but didn’t stop walking away. “I’m not hobbity.”

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

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

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448. “She just wants me in her life now because I was always there before. And she’s holding onto the past as desperately as I’m trying to run from it.”

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449. “Seth, it’s seven o’clock.” Nine in Omaha. Or maybe 1998 in Omaha.”

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450. “Baz takes me to a Starbucks to use the facilities, and when I come out – with a massive rainbow-striped Frappuccino – he’s shouting at Penny: “Thirty-one hours to San Diego?!” “That can’t be right,” Penny says. “That’s like driving from London to Moscow. Let me see.” Baz has been looking at her phone, and she takes it back. “But it’s the same country,” she says.”

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