200+ Quotes & Sayings By Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three. Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationship”“ When did it end?”“ Slightly before it started. Rainbow Rowell

He shakes his head, and he's saying something, and I think I might kiss him. Because I've never kissed anyone before. (I was afraid I might bite.) And I've never wanted to kiss anyone but him. (I won't bite. I won't hurt him.) I just want to kiss him, then go. "Simon..., " I say. And then he kisses me. Rainbow Rowell

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

Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, ” Cath said, “and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time.”“ Pfft, ” Levi said, “I’m picking out my own dress. Rainbow Rowell

Well, ” she said. “I’m frustrated.”“ Don’t make me angry-kiss you.”“ Give me the laundry.”“ Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens. Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

Parfois, écrire se rapproche de la chute libre : vos doigts s'agitent sur le clavier comme vos jambes dans le vide. Rainbow Rowell

The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god–or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself. Rainbow Rowell

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. Rainbow Rowell

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? Rainbow Rowell

You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater.and you’ve got some weird thing about Simon Snow.""I object to every single thing you just said." Reagan chewed. And frowned. She was wearing dark red lipstick." I have lots of friends, " Cath said." I never see them."" I just got here. Most of my friends went to other schools. Or they’re online."" Internet friends don’t count."" Why not?" Reagan shrugged disdainfully." And I don’t have a weird thing with Simon Snow, " Cath said. "I’m just really active in the fandom."" What the fuck is ‘the fandom’? . Rainbow Rowell

He leaned against her, pressing his shoulder into hers. "Don't be mad at me, " he said, sighing. "It makes me crazy."" I'm never mad at you, " she said." Right."" I'm not."" You must just be mad near me a lot. Rainbow Rowell

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? Rainbow Rowell

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? Rainbow Rowell

She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school. "My mum said that nobody really knew where you came from. And that you might be dangerous." "Why didn't you listen to her?" I asked. "Because nobody knew where you came from, Simon! And you might be dangerous! " "You have the worst survival instincts." "Also, I felt sorry for you, " she said. "You were holding your wand backwards. Rainbow Rowell

Your mother was a hero. She developed a spell for gnomeatic fever. And she was the youngest headmaster in Watford history.” Baz is looking at Penny like they’ve never met.“ And, ” Penny goes on, “she defended your father in three duels before he accepted her proposal.”“ That sounds barbaric, ” I say.“ It was traditional, ” Baz says.“ It was brilliant, ” Penny says. “I’ve read the minutes.”“ Where?” Baz asks her.“ We have them in our library at home, ” she says “My dad loves marriage rites. Any sort of family magic, actually. He and my mother are bound together in five dimensions. Rainbow Rowell

She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing. Rainbow Rowell

I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35. Rainbow Rowell

God, had it really been that long? It had. Nineteen years since Georgie stumbled across Seth in the Spoon offices, seventeen years since she first noticed Neal, fourteen since she married him, standing beside a row of lilac trees in his parents' back yard. Georgie never thought she'd be old enough to talk about life in big, decade-long chunks like this. It's not that she'd thought she was going to die before now, she'd just never imagined it would feel this way, the heaviness of the proportions. Twenty years with the same dream, seventeen with the same man. Pretty soon she'd have been with Neal longer than she'd been without him. She'd know herself as his wife better than she'd ever known herself as anyone else. It felt like too much, not too much have, just too much to contemplate. Commitments like boulders that were too heavy to carry. Fourteen years since their wedding, fifteen years since Neal tried to drive away from her, fifteen since he drove back. Seventeen since she first saw him, saw something in him that she couldn't look away from. Rainbow Rowell

Even fifteen hundred miles away, even on the phone, Georgie was more alive than anything else in his life. He felt his cheeks warm just thinking about seeing her again. That's what Georgie did to him, she pulled the blood to the surface of his skin. She acted on him, tidally. She made him feel like things were happening, like life was happening, and even if he was miserable sometimes, he wasn't going to sleep through it. He ran his hand over his pocket. The ring was still there. It had been there since he left the nursing home. His great aunt had pressed it into Neal's hands. 'I don't need this anymore, I never really needed it, but Harold liked to see it on my finger. It was a family ring, ' she said. 'It should stay in the family.' Neal made up his mind as soon as he saw it. The future was going to happen, even if he wasn’t ready for it. Even if he was never ready for it. At least he could make sure he was with the right person. Wasn’t that the point of life? To find someone to share it with? And if you got that part right, how far wrong could you go? If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn’t everything else just scenery?. Rainbow Rowell

At the end of the day -- after work, after trying to spend some sort of meaningful time with Alice and Noomi --Georgie was usually too tired to make things right with Neal before they fell asleep. So things stayed wrong. Rainbow Rowell

Things didn't go bad between Georgie and Neal. Things were always bad -- and always good. Their marriage was like a set of scales constantly balancing itself. And then, at some point, when neither of them was paying attention, they'd tipped so far over into bad, they'd settled there. Now only an enormous amount of good would shift them back. An impossible amount of good. Rainbow Rowell

There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing. Rainbow Rowell

Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces. Rainbow Rowell

She's all brute force and '90s clichés. Rainbow Rowell

If it tries to take you, " Wren said, "I wont' let go. Rainbow Rowell

And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands? Rainbow Rowell

The world turned itself into a better place around him. Rainbow Rowell

Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment. Rainbow Rowell

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one. Rainbow Rowell

... Whenever Eleanor felt nervous or scared, she told herself to be happy instead. (It didn’t really make her feel better, but it kept her from feeling worse …) Rainbow Rowell

Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual. Rainbow Rowell

I love you. I love you both so much."" To the moon and back?" Alice asked." Oh my God, " Georgie said, "so much farther. Rainbow Rowell

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room. Rainbow Rowell

I'm fine, " [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?'' Living, ' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse. Rainbow Rowell

They slow your brain down, " he said, clutching an orange bottle of pills. "They iron out all the wrinkles... Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too..." They break your brain like a horse, so it takes all your orders. I need a break that can break away, you know? I need to think. If I can't think, who am I? Rainbow Rowell

They slow your brain down, " he said, clutching an orange bottle of pills. "They iron out all the wrinkles... Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too..." They break your brain like a horse, so it takes all your orders. I need a brain that can break away, you know? I need to think. If I can't think, who am I? Rainbow Rowell

Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them. Rainbow Rowell

Words are very powerful, " Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. "And they take on more power the more they're spok Rainbow Rowell

Because all her feelings for him — hot and beautiful in her heart — turned to gobbledygook in her mouth. Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor let his words hit her full on. Rainbow Rowell

Seriously, why aren't you on drugs?" Cath walked past her out of the room." Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?""I'm on drugs, " Reagan said. "They're a beautiful thing. Rainbow Rowell

Why did you tell me it was just a kiss?" she asked, waiting for her voice to break. "I don't even care about that other girl. I mean, I do, but not as much. Why was your first instinct to tell me that what happened between you and me didn't matter? And why should I believe you now when you say that it did? Why should I believe anything you say? Rainbow Rowell

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between. Rainbow Rowell

She could have just told him about the magic phone. Full disclosure. Then they could have solved it together. They could have Sherlocked and Watsoned from both ends of the timeline Rainbow Rowell

Neal huffed. Frustrated. "I hate that you thought I wouldn't call-- I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative? Rainbow Rowell

And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her." Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Just. .. erasing away. Recovering the six inches between them Rainbow Rowell

He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagined himself doing when he bought it. That might even be why he bought it - so he'd have this moment, under her hair. He ran his fingertips along the chain and settled the pendant on her throat. Rainbow Rowell

I didn't plan it, " she said. "I hoped that we would both just know when it was time.. That we'd have one of those moments. Like in the movies, foreign movies, when something small happens, something almost imperceptible, and it changes everything. Like there's a man and a woman having breakfast.. and the man reaches for the jam, and the woman says, "I thought you didn't like jam, " and the man says, "I didn't. Once.""Or maybe it isn’t even obvious. Maybe he reaches for the jam, and she just looks at him like she doesn't know him anymore. Like, in the moment he reached for that jar, she couldn't recognize him." After breakfast, he'll go for a walk, and she'll go to their room and pack a slim brown suitcase. She'll stop on the sidewalk and wonder whether she should say good-bye, whether she should leave a note. But she won't. She'll just get into the taxi and go." He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they spent together, including this one. Maybe he finds one of her ribbons on the stairs.. Rainbow Rowell

I'm sorry about yesterday, " she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens. Rainbow Rowell

I'm sorry Penelope." "Don't waste my time with sorries, Simon. If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes, we'll never have time to be friends. Rainbow Rowell

I wasn’t built for this, ” he yelled. “Look at me. You know it’s true.” And for the first time, maybe ever, he didn’t sound cool. He sounded a little panicked. And a little angry. “I don’t want to love someone so much that they take up all my head, all my space. If I knew I was going to feel this way about you, I would have left a long time ago, while I still could. Rainbow Rowell

He ever offer to walk you home?"" I've never asked, " Cath said quickly. "I've never asked you either."" That's true, " Levi said. More quiet. More cold. The air stung Cath's throat when she finally spoke again. "So maybe you shouldn't."" Don't be ridiculous, " Levi said. "That wasn't my point. Rainbow Rowell

He stood for twenty minutes in the bedding aisle at Target, trying to choose a manly sheet set, then picked the ones with a violet pattern, because he liked violets and who else was ever going to see his sheets, anyway? Rainbow Rowell

If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear. Rainbow Rowell

Some people count sheep. I self-loathe. Rainbow Rowell

She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat. Rainbow Rowell

The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I think the goblin who successfully offs me gets to be king. Rainbow Rowell

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most. Rainbow Rowell

Magic fucking phone. Rainbow Rowell

Just because it had happened before didn’t mean it wasn’t serious. It didn’t mean he didn’t need them. Rainbow Rowell