Top 500 Rainbow Rowell Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Because they weren’t wings. They were bones and feathers and magic – and will.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

403. “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

404. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

405. “It’s a hard spell and an old spell, and it works only if you understand the Great Vowel Shift of the Sixteenth Century – and if you’re stupidly in love.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

407. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

408. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

409. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

411. “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

412. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

413. “Levi’s eyebrows were pornographic.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

415. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

419. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

422. “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

423. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

426. “God, she was weird.”

— Rainbow Rowell

427. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

429. “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

430. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

433. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

435. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

437. “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

438. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

443. “We’ll make our own enough.”

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Rainbow Rowell

445. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell

447. “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.”

— Rainbow Rowell

448. “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

449. “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

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

— Rainbow Rowell