Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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?

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.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

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

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.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

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

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.

Cath couldn't stop thinking about Levi and his ten thousand smiles.

And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favorite clothes—cardigans and tights and leg warmers.

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.

Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

Cath ate the banana and held on to his gaze. “I’d give you the moon right now,” she said. Levi’s eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. “Yeah, but would you slay it for me?

You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you - first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room.

I love you more than I hate everything else.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

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.

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

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.

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

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.

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

If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.

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

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

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.

Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen—because you love each other.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.

He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.

I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.

Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.

The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.

I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you

I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.

You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.

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.

You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.