Rainbow Rowell Quotes

The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I think the goblin who successfully offs me gets to be king.

~ Rainbow Rowell

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Because, he says, it hurts to think about things that you can't have or help. S'better not to think about it.

~ Rainbow Rowell

You don’t care what anyone thinks about you,’ he said.‘That’s crazy,’ she said. ‘I care what everyone thinks about me.’‘I can’t tell,’ he said. ‘You just seem like yourself, no matter what’s happening around you. My grandmother would say you’re comfortable in your own skin.

~ Rainbow Rowell

When Eleanor was a little girl, she'd thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful. She was tall and stately, with broad shoulders and an elegant waist. All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He was hers. To have and hold. Not forever, maybe--not forever, for sure--and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. And he wanted her to touch him. He was like a cat who pushes its head under your hands.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

~ Rainbow Rowell

She could have just told him about the magic phone. Full disclosure. Then they could have solved it together. They could have Sherlocked and Watsoned from both endsof the timeline.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you…

~ Rainbow Rowell

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

~ Rainbow Rowell

If he were to look up at her now, he’d know exactly how stupid she was. She couldfeel her face go soft and gummy. If Park were to look up at her now, he’d know everything.

~ Rainbow Rowell

The problem with playing hide-and-seek with your sister is that sometimes she gets bored and stops looking for you.And there you are - under the couch, in the closet, wedged behind the lilac tree - and you don't want to give up, because maybe she's just biding her time. But maybe she's wandered off...

~ Rainbow Rowell

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

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight -- and Levi can't even read.

~ Rainbow Rowell

All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?'He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears. 'God,' she said. 'I told you I shouldn't talk. I didn't even answer your question.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I don't like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don't think I even breathe when we're not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?

~ Rainbow Rowell

Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Cath probably should have texted Abel by now, just to tell him that she'd made it - but she wanted to wait until she felt more breezy and nonchalant. You can't take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.

~ Rainbow Rowell

She was tired of being the one who cried.

~ Rainbow Rowell

How could it be possible that there were that many nerve endings all in one place?

~ Rainbow Rowell

She was pretty sure Seth had practiced all his facial expressions and gestures in front of a mirror, and worked out which ones made him look like a cross between an Abercrombie model and a kitten.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I can’t help but think,’ Park would say during taekwando. ‘I can’t turn off my brain.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He's mad at me.For what?For not being like him.Eleanor looked dubious. Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?Basically.

~ Rainbow Rowell

You looked like the girl I loved.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy...And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220

~ Rainbow Rowell

He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.

~ Rainbow Rowell

They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)

~ Rainbow Rowell

They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose

~ Rainbow Rowell

To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Hey, mister, I don’t think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.

~ Rainbow Rowell

She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Why do I write?To be somewhere elseTo get free of ourselvesTo stopTo stop being anything or anywhere at allTo disappear

~ Rainbow Rowell

Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Georgie,' he said. Then he kissed her. That was it, really. That was when she added Neal to the list of things she wanted and needed and was bound to have someday. That's when she decided that Neal was the person who was going to drive on those overnight trips. And Neal was the one who is going to sit next to her at the Emmys. He kissed her like he was drawing a perfectly straight line. He kissed her in India ink. That's when Georgie decided, during that cocksure kiss, that Neal was what she needed to be happy.

~ Rainbow Rowell

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Moriré besando a Simon Snow. Simon Snow morirá besándome.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Comedy writers don't join fraternities.''Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.

~ Rainbow Rowell