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

— Rainbow Rowell

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

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403. “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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404. “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?”

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405. “A relationship isn’t about the end. It’s about being together every step of the way.”

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

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

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

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409. “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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410. “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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411. “Am I going to die?” he asked. “I hope so,” Justin said.”

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

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413. “Nothing ever ends.”

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

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415. “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

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

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

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418. “Levi’s eyebrows were pornographic.”

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

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421. “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?”

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422. “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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423. “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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424. “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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425. “The kind of guy you can picture negotiating for hostages and also jumping away from an explosion.”

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

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427. “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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428. “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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429. “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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430. “Seth, it’s seven o’clock.” Nine in Omaha. Or maybe 1998 in Omaha.”

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

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

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

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436. “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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437. “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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438. “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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439. “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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440. “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.”

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441. “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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442. “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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443. “Because they weren’t wings. They were bones and feathers and magic – and will.”

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

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445. “God, she was weird.”

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

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

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

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

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