Rainbow Rowell Quotes

His eyes were that colour you can't see in the rainbow. Indigo.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Will you read this? I think maybe it sucks. Or maybe it's awesome. It's probably awesome. Tell me it's awesome, okay? Unless it sucks. — Nick

~ Rainbow Rowell

I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter.

~ Rainbow Rowell

These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He turned around, suddenly concerned. Are you pregnant? Are you gay? I'd rather you were gay than pregnant. Unless you're pregnant. Then we'll deal. Whatever it is, we'll deal. Are you pregnant?

~ Rainbow Rowell

She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb. Her fingers were trembling.Park shifted in his seat and turned his back to the aisle.Okay? she whispered.He nodded, taking a deep breath. They both stared down at their hands.Jesus.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Then she kissed him. He loved it when she kissed him first.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.And Eleanor disintegrated.

~ Rainbow Rowell

You look like you. Only with the volume turned up.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He looked up at her and smiled crookedly, holding out a few sheets of paper. Will you read this? i think maybe it sucks. or maybe it's awesome. it's probably awesome. Tell me it's awesome,okay? Unless it sucks.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too, at least one mountain. Is that too much to ask? And trees. Not a whole forest, necessarily. I'd settle for a thicket. Scenery. I want scenery!

~ Rainbow Rowell

I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Don’t make me angry-kiss you

~ Rainbow Rowell

Baz arched an elegant brow. Are you going to snog the Humdrum-is that your plan? Because he's eleven. And he looks just like you. That's both vain and deviant, Snow, even for you.

~ Rainbow Rowell

When I wake up on Sunday Mornings - late, you always let me sleep in - I come looking for you, and you're in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect orbit. And you put their hair in pigtails and you let them wear whatever madness they want, and Alice planted a fruit cocktail tree and Noomi ate a butterfly, and they look like me because they're round and golden, but they glow for you.

~ Rainbow Rowell

The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing...God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?

~ Rainbow Rowell

If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.

~ Rainbow Rowell

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

~ Rainbow Rowell

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

~ Rainbow Rowell

You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?

~ Rainbow Rowell

I said that sometimes it's too much.Well, I want someone who doesn't thinks so. I want someone who's heart is big enough to hold me.You want someone whose love will fit around your finger.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I am the sun... And the air...

~ Rainbow Rowell

Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest.Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was a postcard.Just three words long.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I don’t know,” he said. “I just feel like I have to do something.”“Do what?”“I don’t know. That’s what’s wrong. Or part of what’s wrong. I feel like I’m sleepwalking.

~ Rainbow Rowell

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

~ Rainbow Rowell

All the men’s clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Snow's table manners are atrocious - it's like watching a wild dog eat. A wild dog you'd like to slip the tongue.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be.

~ Rainbow Rowell

He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.

~ Rainbow Rowell

It’s a number.”“It’s not,” she said. “It’s a chance to wake up new.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.” “It made us roommates,” he says. I shake my head. “We were always more.” “We were enemies.”“You were the centre of my universe,” I say. “Everything else spun around you.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.)

~ Rainbow Rowell

Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?

~ Rainbow Rowell

It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinball, with a giant shot of momentum. The feeling sometimes didn’t wear off until six or seven at night (when it was usually overtaken by the feeling that he was just bouncing haplessly from one situation to the next without any real purpose or direction).

~ Rainbow Rowell

From: Beth Fremont To: Jennifer Scribner-Snyder Sent: Thurs, 09/30/1999 3:42 PM Subject: If you were Superman … … and you could choose any alter ego you wanted, why the hell would you choose to spend your Clark Kent hours — which already suck because you have to wear glasses and you can’t fly — at a newspaper? Why not pose as a wealthy playboy like Batman? Or the leader of a small but important nation like Black Panther? Why would you choose to spend your days on deadline, making crap money, dealing with terminally crabby editors?

~ Rainbow Rowell

There's not such thing as handsome princes, she told herself.There's no such thing as happily ever after.She looked up at Park. Into his golden green eyes.You saved my life, she tried to tell him.Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's right now is yours. Always.

~ Rainbow Rowell