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Rainbow Rowell Quotes

Total quotes: 54
“I want to be the last person who ever kisses you… That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I’m trying to say is, you’re it. This is it for me.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Love, romance, Courage, Confession
“Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline: A Novel
Tagged: heart, Love, Heart Broken, Heart Break, Broken Heart, Pain, Hurting, Heartache, Heart Heals, Encouragement
“I’ve always felt that two people who shared as much as we did and shared such important years should have never drifted apart.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Tagged: Relationship, Loss
“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen - because you love each other.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Tagged: Love
“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, Attachments
Tagged: Autumn, october, Fall, Happiness
“And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify that fact.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Relationship, Togetherness, Being Alive
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy…It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl: A Novel
Tagged: Happy Ever After, Togetherness, Relationship, courageous, Staying Together
“She never felt like she belonged anywhere, except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Belongingness, Loneliness
“And I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline: A Novel
Tagged: Happiness, Desire
“All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Relationships, Being Away from Someone, Love, Selfless Love
“I choose you over everyone.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl: A Novel
Tagged: romance, Choice, Cute Things To Say To Her
“But it didn’t break me. Nothing can break me unless I let it.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Tagged: motivation, Self-Worth, Coping Mechanism
“People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Rainbow Rowell Quote
Tagged: Books, Bibliophile, Readers, Love, Passion
“He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that, because she was kind. And before that, because she was smart and funny. Because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. Because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. Because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she’d have to say about it – how many stars she’d give it and why.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments: A Novel
Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, Infatuation, affection
“'You are,' he said fiercely, looking at her. 'You're worth it.'”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Love, romance, Love & Connection, Love & Contentment, Loving, sweet confinement
“I like you...And I don't even care that you don't like me — I'm used to it, I wouldn't know what to do if you did. But I like you...I like this.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
Tagged: Love, liking someone, Confession, Confession of Love, Confession of Feelings, romance
“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I’d wake up in the morning and think, 'This will end in flames.'”
— Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
Tagged: Love
“As a reader, it is my opinion that 99/100 battle scenes suck.
As a writer, I do not like facing those odds.”
— Rainbow Rowell, via twitter.com
Tagged: reader and writer, Writer Problems, reading and writing, fighting scenes, action scenes
“For some reason, she didn't want to read in front of him. It would be like letting him watch her eat.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Relationships, Love & Relationships, feelings in a relationship
“I never bailed on a book when I was a kid. Like, once I started, I was along for the ride. And I don't remember thinking critically along the way.”
— Rainbow Rowell
Tagged: Books, Reading books, bailing books, Bookworm
“Failure doesn’t cancel out heroism. When the odds are against you, it takes courage to try.”
— Rainbow Rowell
Tagged: Failure, Courage, Take Risks, learn to take risks
“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Tagged: Happiness, Life, Optimism, Cultivating Happiness, Dealing with anxiety, Count Your Blessings
“You saved me 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 me right now is yours. Always.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Eleanor and Park
“And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.

Something always did.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Eleanor and Park
“It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one — and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Tagged: Falling In Love, Hope, Commitment
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Love, True Love, Art, Feeling
“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Eleanor and Park
“Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her.

The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Eleanor and Park
“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl: A Novel
Tagged: Trust, Leaving, Tired
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Creative, Art, Feelings
“He tried to remember how this happened—how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Eleanor and Park
“Every time, [they] break your heart. And everytime, [they] expect [you] to pick up the pieces.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Heart Break, Pain, hurt, Expectations, Strong
“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Butterflies, Crush, Holding Hands, puppy love
“If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person -- you should have to work for that first kiss.”
— Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Tagged: Effort, Hard Work, Kisses, H4D-7
“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Read In Your 20s
“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl: A Novel
Tagged: Depression, Living, Life
“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, Fangirl: A Novel
Tagged: texts, Texting, H4D-50
“One of the great epiphanies of my lifetime was realizing that I disliked so many female characters because they were created by men who didn’t like women.”
— Rainbow Rowell
Tagged: characters, Books, Novels, female characters
“But it’s up to us …’ he said softly. ‘It’s up to us not to lose this.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Eleanor and Park
“'Not all men' has sort of become a useful thing to say, now that SO MANY men want to rationalize disgusting behavior as a normal, guy thing.

NOT REALLY. It’s not normal. It’s not something men can’t help. PLENTY of men get through the day without harassing anyone.”
— Rainbow Rowell, via twitter.com
Tagged: Sexual Harassment, Men, Male, Human rights issue, male culture
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