Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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.”

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

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403. “Nothing ever ends.”

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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. “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.”

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

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407. “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.”

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

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

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

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411. “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.”

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412. “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?”

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413. “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?”

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414. “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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415. “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.”

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416. “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.”

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417. “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.”

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

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

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420. “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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421. “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?”

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422. “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.”

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423. “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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424. “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.”

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425. “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.”

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

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

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428. “Levi’s eyebrows were pornographic.”

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

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

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

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432. “God, she was weird.”

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433. “Her dad was wrong about worrying. Cath liked to worry. It made her feel proactive, even when she was totally helpless.”

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

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

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

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

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438. “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.”

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439. “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.”

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440. “We’ll make our own enough.”

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

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

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443. “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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444. “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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445. “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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446. “If it tries to take you, I won’t let go.”

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

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448. “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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449. “She was all he could see.”

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450. “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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