110+ Rainbow Rowell Quotes On Heartfelt, Quirky And Emotional

Rainbow Rowell is an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. She is best known for her novels Eleanor & Park and Fangirl, both of which have been adapted into film and television. Her other works include Carry On, Landline, and Attachments. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Rainbow Rowell on love, heartfelt, quirky.

Top 10 Rainbow Rowell Quotes

1. 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?
2. 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.
3. In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)
4. You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.
5. Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
6. To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

Rainbow Rowell Short Quotes

• Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
• You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.
• That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
• He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
• The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.
• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.
• There was just no fear in her.
• It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.
• Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.
• Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.

Rainbow Rowell Quotes About Love

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 love you more than I hate everything else. — Rainbow Rowell

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

I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown." "And you like it?" "I love it." As soon as he said it, she broke into a smile. And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did. — Rainbow Rowell

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

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

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. — Rainbow Rowell

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

She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer. — Rainbow Rowell

He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air. — Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls. — Rainbow Rowell

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

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

It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me. — Rainbow Rowell

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

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. — Rainbow Rowell

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. — Rainbow Rowell

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

I'm the Cool One," she told herself. "Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents' bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss? — Rainbow Rowell

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. — 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

Well, at first, I was sure that he would feel the cosmic forces pulling us together. I wanted him so badly, I could feel my heart racing for him with every beat. It was destiny. "He was a magnet and I was steel. — Rainbow Rowell

It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard." I didn't have any concept of what that path would look like. Maybe that's why I didn't publish my first book until I was 38. — Rainbow Rowell

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. — Rainbow Rowell

Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath. — Rainbow Rowell

Nothing before you counts," he said. "And I can't even imagine an after." She shook her head. "Don't." "What?" "Don't talk about after." "I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too.... 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

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

There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact. — Rainbow Rowell

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves! — Rainbow Rowell

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box. — Rainbow Rowell

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

Baz. "Have you ever done this before?" Simon. "Yes. No." "Yes or no?" "Yes. Not like this." Baz. "Not with a boy?" Simon. "Not when I really wanted it. — Rainbow Rowell

It's so easy for someone else to say, 'Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.' Why not say it? It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't mean anything. No one will hold you to it if you're wrong. — Rainbow Rowell

He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more." "That sounds excruciating. — Rainbow Rowell

Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe. — Rainbow Rowell

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. — Rainbow Rowell

Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cath’s stomach. — Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom. — Rainbow Rowell

I choose you over everyone. — Rainbow Rowell

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

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

She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice--a fetal smile--and it very nearly killed her. — Rainbow Rowell

A little manic was what their house ran on. — Rainbow Rowell

I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation. — Rainbow Rowell

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. — Rainbow Rowell

I pictured a girl who made every moment, everything she touched, and everyone around her feel lighter and sweeter. “I pictured you,” he said. “I just didn’t know what you looked like. “And then, when I did know what you looked like, you looked like the girl who was all those things. You looked like the girl I loved. — 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

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

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

That moment," she told Cath, "when you realize that a guy's looking at you differently - that you're taking up more space in his field of vision. That moment when you know he can't see past you anymore. — Rainbow Rowell

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination — Rainbow Rowell

Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere. — Rainbow Rowell

Eggnog reminds me of mucus." "Me, too. But in a good way. — Rainbow Rowell

How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge. — Rainbow Rowell

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all. — Rainbow Rowell

You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book person.” “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me — Rainbow Rowell

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

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late. — Rainbow Rowell

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

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost never mind when a movie changes or cuts something - as long as it helps the film work better. — Rainbow Rowell

Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don’t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame. — Rainbow Rowell

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her. — Rainbow Rowell

I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time. — Rainbow Rowell

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up. — Rainbow Rowell

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after. — Rainbow Rowell

Hey,' he said. It came out hard and frustrated. 'I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.' She walked to the bottom of the steps, then looked back at him. 'It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't. — Rainbow Rowell

Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader? — Rainbow Rowell

That was the beauty in stacking up words--they got cheaper, the more you had of them. — Rainbow Rowell

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish. — Rainbow Rowell

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? — Rainbow Rowell

So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you. — Rainbow Rowell

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

Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again. — Rainbow Rowell

She was tired of being the one who cried. — Rainbow Rowell

Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing. — Rainbow Rowell

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love. — Rainbow Rowell

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

She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be. — Rainbow Rowell

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. — Rainbow Rowell

Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away. — Rainbow Rowell

You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between. — Rainbow Rowell

Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off. — Rainbow Rowell

But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her. — Rainbow Rowell

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 don’t think there’s enough of her left. — Rainbow Rowell

Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.) — Rainbow Rowell

Honey, I've watched a lot of 90210. The parents weren't even on the show once Brandon and Brenda went to college. This is your time - you're supposed to going to frat parties and getting back together with Dylan." "Why does everybody want me to go to frat parties?" "Who wants you to go to frat parties? I was just kidding. Don't hang out with frat guys, Cath, they're terrible. All they do is get drunk and watch 90210. — Rainbow Rowell

I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you. — Rainbow Rowell

<> It's nice of you to say I'm your best friend. <> You are my best friend, dummy. <> Really? You are my best friend. But I always assumed that somebody else was your best friend, and I was totally okay with that. You don't have to say that I'm your best friend just to make me feel good. <> You're so lame. <> That's why I figured somebody else was your best friend. — Rainbow Rowell

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past? — Rainbow Rowell

That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heavy while I walked along, swinging my arms?" Your girl? "The kind that respects my wishes," she said. "And my strength, and my... arms." Levi grinned some more. Because he wasn't taking her seriously. "I have a lot of respect for your arms. I like how they're attached to the rest of you. — Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor,” he said, just because he liked saying it, “why do you like me?” “I don’t like you.” He waited. And waited… Then he started to laugh. “You’re kind of mean,” he said. “Don’t laugh. It just encourages me. — Rainbow Rowell

The strange thing about seeing someone for first time in nine years is the way they look totally different, just for a second, a split second, and then they look at you the way they always have, as if no time has passed between you. — Rainbow Rowell

I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance. — Rainbow Rowell

Emergency dance party--go away. — Rainbow Rowell

Life Lessons by Rainbow Rowell

1. Rainbow Rowell teaches us to be brave and to stand up for ourselves and our beliefs.
2. She also encourages us to be kind and to take risks in order to reach our goals.
3. Finally, Rainbow Rowell reminds us to be open-minded and to accept people for who they are, regardless of their differences.