Quotes From "Attachments" By Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. Rainbow Rowell

You looked like the girl I loved. Rainbow Rowell

It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in. Rainbow Rowell

>>How old were you when you had your first kiss?>> Twenty. It's pathetic. Guys don't want to kiss fat girls. >>Not true. There are all those guys on jerry springer, and there's president Clinton... >>Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl. >>I'll bet you never gave anyone a chance. Mitch says you practically beat him away with a stick.>> I was trying to spare him. Rainbow Rowell

Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl. Rainbow Rowell

Your own life starts the moment you're born. Before that, even."" I just, I feel like as long as I live with you, I won't.. I'm not.. It's like George Jefferson.""From the TV show?"" Right. George Jefferson. As long as he was on 'All in the Family', he was just somebody who made Archie Bunker's story more interesting. He didn't have anything of his own. He didn't have a plot or supporting characters. I don't know if you ever even got to see his house. But after he got his own show, George had his own living room and kitchen.. and bedroom, I think. He even had his own elevator. Places for him to exist in, for his story to happen. Like this apartment. This is something that's mine. Rainbow Rowell

You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to?" He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast-iron radiator. "I just.., " he said. "Just?""I need to live my life."" You aren't living your own life now?" she asked. "I certainly never tell you what to do."" No, I know, it's just.."" Just?"" It doesn't feel like I'm living my own life."" What?"" It feels like, as long as I stay home, I'm still living your life. like I'm still a kid."" That's silly, " she said." Maybe, " he said. . Rainbow Rowell

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

You don't get to choose, " Lincoln said. "It's just happening. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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