Rainbow Rowell
38 quotes
Biography
"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."
"Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive."
"I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?"
"I love you more than I hate everything else."
"It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys."
"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."
"I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time."
"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."
"I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Don't make me angry-kiss you."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You were the sun, and I was crashing into you."
"Emergency dance party--go away."