Rainbow Rowell Quotes: 38

• 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.

  Eleanor & Park

• Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

  Eleanor & Park

• I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

  Eleanor & Park

• What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.

  Eleanor & Park

• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

  Fangirl

• Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

  Attachments

• Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

  Fangirl

• She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..."Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

  Fangirl

• The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

  Eleanor & Park

• If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

  Eleanor & Park

• I love you more than I hate everything else.

  Landline

• It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.

  Eleanor & Park

• My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

  Eleanor & Park

• I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.

  Attachments

• Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

  Eleanor & Park

• I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.

  Attachments

• You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

  Eleanor & Park

• Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.

  Eleanor & Park

• 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.

  Fangirl

• Don't make me angry-kiss you.

  Fangirl

• What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?" "I love it."He says"Why?" "Because we match.

  Carry On

• I didn't know someone could love me like this,"she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without...needing space."Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her."There's no air in space,"he said.

  Attachments

• You think I'm cute?"He said thinkly, pulling on her hand.She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..."Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

  Eleanor & Park

• You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.

  Carry On

• Emergency dance party--go away.

  Fangirl

• I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I'm hopelessly in love with him.

  Carry On

• He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One,"he says.I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you,"I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.

  Carry On

• She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

  Eleanor & Park

• What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?

  Attachments

• When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

  Fangirl

• I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

  Attachments

• Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

  Attachments

• This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner." "So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" "Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?"Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?

  Eleanor & Park

• There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other,' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

  Eleanor & Park

• When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out.“I’m such an idiot,” he said.Cath fell between his knees and hugged him.“I can’t believe I said that,” he said. “I can’t even go nine hours without seeing you.

  Fangirl

• There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me.There's only one of him.

  Eleanor & Park

• I'm ending this.''No. Come on. It's not worth it.''You are,' he said fiercely, looking at her.'You're worth it.

  Eleanor & Park

• And there wasn’t anything he wanted to do that he couldn’t make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can’t plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don’t happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?

  Attachments