Rainbow Rowell Quotes

October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

~ Rainbow Rowell

If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Miniature Emilie came along. Lincoln could tell she was watching him, but he tried not to encourage her. He didn't want to betray Beth. They wouldn't let you ride Splash Mountain, he thought.

~ Rainbow Rowell

When she and Wren divided up their clothes, Wren had taken anything that said party at a boy's place or leaving the house. Cath had taken everything that said up all night writing or it's okay to spill tea on this. (pg. 189)

~ Rainbow Rowell

I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.

~ Rainbow Rowell

It made her want to have his babies and give him both her kidneys.

~ Rainbow Rowell

There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that's more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.

~ Rainbow Rowell

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

~ Rainbow Rowell

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

~ Rainbow Rowell

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

~ Rainbow Rowell

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

~ Rainbow Rowell

It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

~ Rainbow Rowell