Rainbow Rowell Quotes

It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I'm never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn't flat now, I'm not going back.

~ Rainbow Rowell

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

~ Rainbow Rowell

I glance over at him, he still looks like something I want to eat.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I know the world is flat now, I'm not going back.

~ Rainbow Rowell

There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.

~ Rainbow Rowell

How often do you have to drink?” “Every night, to feel good. Every few nights, to stay sane.” “Have you ever bitten anyone?” “No. I’m not a murderer.” “Does it have to be fatal every time? The biting? Couldn’t you just drink some of a person’s blood, then walk away?” “I can’t believe you’re asking me this, Snow. You, who can’t walk away from half a sandwich.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He smiles, and he's made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me... Cather.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don´t do it

~ Rainbow Rowell

She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.

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She finished getting ready with plenty of time to eat breakfast but didn't feel up to braving the dining hall; she still didn't know where it was or how it worked....In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.) Like, where does the line start? What food can you take? Where are you supposed to stand, then where are you supposed to sit? Where do you go when you're done, why is everyone watching you?... Bah.

~ Rainbow Rowell

...as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea.

~ Rainbow Rowell

And then she kissed him with tongue- on the bus.

~ Rainbow Rowell

One of his eyes was swollen shut, and his nose was thick and purple. It made her want to cry. And to kiss him. (Because apparently everything made her want to kiss him. Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth and she would still put on fresh ChapStick. God.)

~ Rainbow Rowell

>>How old were you when you had your first kiss?>>Twenty. It's pathetic. Guys don't want to kiss fat girls. >>Not true. There are all those guys on jerry springer, and there's president Clinton... >>Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl. >>I'll bet you never gave anyone a chance. Mitch says you practically beat him away with a stick.>>I was trying to spare him.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl.

~ Rainbow Rowell

You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?

~ Rainbow Rowell

How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside her was snapping. Her nerves. Her temper. Her esophagus. 'I'll write because I love it, the way other people knit or . . . or scrapbook. And I'll find some other way to make money.

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But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my own characters or my own worlds -- I don't care about them. . . . I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.''That's not even the right kind of racist.

~ Rainbow Rowell

They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.

~ Rainbow Rowell

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death.

~ Rainbow Rowell

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn’t be death. You’re always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves... So you’re going to kill him off? Isn’t the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Your own life starts the moment you're born. Before that, even.I just, I feel like as long as I live with you, I won't... I'm not... It's like George Jefferson.From the TV show?Right. George Jefferson. As long as he was on 'All in the Family', he was just somebody who made Archie Bunker's story more interesting. He didn't have anything of his own. He didn't have a plot or supporting characters. I don't know if you ever even got to see his house. But after he got his own show, George had his own living room and kitchen... and bedroom, I think. He even had his own elevator. Places for him to exist in, for his story to happen. Like this apartment. This is something that's mine.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Cath exhaled. Then inhaled. Her chest was so tight, it hurt both ways. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest.

~ Rainbow Rowell

But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this.

~ Rainbow Rowell

You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin.

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She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline -- maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

~ Rainbow Rowell

So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

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Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

~ Rainbow Rowell

There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself. Professor Piper

~ Rainbow Rowell

If we go on like this, there won't be anything left to fight for

~ Rainbow Rowell

His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.

~ Rainbow Rowell