Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “A relationship isn’t about the end. It’s about being together every step of the way.”

— Rainbow Rowell

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

406. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

412. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

413. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

416. “God, she was weird.”

— Rainbow Rowell

417. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

419. “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

420. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

423. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

425. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

427. “You’re still Simon Snow. You’re still the hero of this story – ” “This isn’t a story!” “Everything is a story.”

— Rainbow Rowell

428. “At some point Levi had put his left arm around her and pulled her back against his chest – she’d been fidgeting and rubbing her back on the wall, and Levi just reached behind her and pulled her into him.”

— Rainbow Rowell

429. “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

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

— 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. “We’ll make our own enough.”

— Rainbow Rowell

434. “The arguments in her brain were like a swarm of people running from a burning building and getting stuck in the door.”

— Rainbow Rowell

435. “Plus, I like to pray for things that seem possible. There are so many things that I pray for that seem almost too big even for God. It’s rewarding to pray for something that might actually happen.”

— Rainbow Rowell

436. “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

437. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

440. “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

441. “How could you possibly have a dark secret involving the Star Wars prequels? Are you responsible for Jar Jar Binks?”

— Rainbow Rowell

442. “Best of all, she had Park’s songs in her head – and in her chest, somehow.”

— Rainbow Rowell

443. “He put on a short-sleeved white T-shirt and tried not to flex when he checked his reflection in the mirror. Is this what women felt like when they put on miniskirts?”

— Rainbow Rowell

444. “Is it so bad?” he asked. “It’s not me.” “Of course it’s you.” “I just, I look like I’m in costume. Like I’m trying to be something that I’m not.” Like she was trying to be pretty and popular. It was the trying part that was so disgusting.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

446. “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

447. “She was all he could see.”

— Rainbow Rowell

448. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell