Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Seth, it’s seven o’clock.” Nine in Omaha. Or maybe 1998 in Omaha.”

— Rainbow Rowell

402. “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

403. “I loved you before I met you, and I loved you the moment I held you. And I never meant to leave you so soon.”

— Rainbow Rowell

404. “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

405. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

407. “He was a roommate-in-law.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

409. “Levi’s eyebrows were pornographic.”

— Rainbow Rowell

410. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

412. “His eyes were that colour you can’t see in the rainbow. Indigo.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

415. “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

416. “It’s still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

422. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

424. “Nothing ever ends.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

426. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

428. “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

429. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

430. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

431. “The kind of guy you can picture negotiating for hostages and also jumping away from an explosion.”

— Rainbow Rowell

432. “She was the worst kind of out of control–the kind that thinks it’s just fine, thanks.”

— Rainbow Rowell

433. “Was that codependence? Or was it just marriage?”

— Rainbow Rowell

434. “I don’t think there’s enough of her left.”

— Rainbow Rowell

435. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

437. “He liked being near that, that kind of brave and crazy.”

— Rainbow Rowell

438. “He cocks an eyebrow and stares at me, like figuring out what’s wrong with me is something he’ll never have enough time for.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

440. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

441. “Are you sad?” she asked him. Sincerely. “Do you need to go home and listen to all your mixed tapes and think about this chapter of your life closing?”

— Rainbow Rowell

442. “They’d had this conversation in the cafeteria. They were waiting by the door so that Georgie could casually get in line behind Jay Anselmo, who was two years older than they were, really into No Doubt and competitive car stereos, and who would undoubtedly ignore her. “What’s.”

— Rainbow Rowell

443. “I don’t suppose I ever had the choices I thought I did.”

— Rainbow Rowell

444. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

445. “I erase the word and start over. I’m working on the “Everything we still don’t” list. I’m tempted to write: everything important and also: whether Simon Snow is actually gay. And: whether I’ll live forever.”

— Rainbow Rowell

446. “She had spent so much time thinking about what it would be like to finally come home and how much she missed everybody – she thought they’d throw her a ticker tape parade. She thought it would be a big hugfest.”

— Rainbow Rowell

447. “Money and time, those were the two things that he always heard people complaining about, and he had plenty of both.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell