Top 100 Rainbow Rowell Quotes
#1. What's the point of making a nice guy like me?" Georgie said. "Nice guys like everybody."
"You shouldn't have to make anybody like you, Georgie. You should want to be with somebody who can't help but like you.
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#2. Is it too much?"
"No. It's like you completed the circuit," I say, gripping his other hand. "I feel kind of drunk, though."
"Drunk on power?" he asks.
I giggle. "Shit, Snow. Stop talking. This is embarrassing.
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#3. I mean, if everything is already set in stone, why try? I prefer to think that we're choosing in every moment what happens next.
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#4. What would we do together?" Cath asked. "He'd want to go to the bar,and I'd want to stay home and write fanfiction.
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#7. How could you possibly have a dark secret involving the Star Wars prequels? Are you responsible for Jar Jar Binks?
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#8. Disintegrated.
Like something had gone wrong beaming her onto the Starship Enterprise.
If you've ever wondered what that feels like, it's a lot like melting but more violent
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#9. I glance over at him; he still looks like something I want to eat.
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#10. 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!
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#11. Sometimes it seemed like she would never be able to give Park anything like what he'd given her. It was like he dumped all this treasure on her every morning without even thinking about it, without any sense of what it was worth
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#12. Your father is a piece of work," her mother said. "Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces." Pick up, sweep aside - same difference in her mom's world. Eleanor didn't argue.
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#13. I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
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#14. Petunia's having a baby."
"What?"
"Petunia!" Georgie said, more urgently. "She's having puppies in the dryer!"
"No, she's not. She's having a C-section in two weeks."
"Great!" Georgie shouted. "I'll go tell her!
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#15. He didn't even think Tina really liked him, deep down. It was more like she didn't want him to get over her. And not-so-deep down, Park didn't want Tina to get over him.
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#16. She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice
a fetal smile
and it very nearly killed her.
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#17. I spent four months trying to kiss you and the last six weeks trying to figure out how I managed to fuck everything up.
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#18. But I'm no good at apologizing. I always end up making it worse. I'll say, "I'm sorry," and I'll be all sweet, and then once I'm forgiven, I'll say, "But you really did start it.
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#19. His eyelids fluttered. (Only eyelids do that. And butterflies.)
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#20. But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write
he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I hadn't meant to slay that dragon. It wouldn't have hurt me, I don't think. (I still dream about it sometimes. The way the fire consumed it from the inside out, like a cigarette burn eating a piece of paper.)
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#23. There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other,' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.
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#24. He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.
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#25. He probably thinks pixies are a lesser species. Half-sentient, like gnomes and Internet trolls.
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#26. Georgie never thought she'd be old enough to talk about life in big decade-long chunks like this.
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#27. I think I can live without you," he said, like it was something he'd spent twenty-seven hours thinking about, "but it won't be any kind of life.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Cath didn't feel, for the moment, like her DNA was a trap ready to snap closed on her.
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#30. Was the hope that pulled at her heart with dirty little fingers.
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#31. <> What kind of parties does she go to - cupcake parties? <> I think she meant beer. <> Oh, right.
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#32. She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly.
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#33. She wouldn't be on the bus with him. She wouldn't roll her eyes at him in English. She wouldn't pick a fight with him just because she was bored. She wouldn't cry in his bedroom about the things he couldn't fix for her.
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#34. Are you sad?" she asked him. Sincerely. "Do you need to go home and listen to all your mixed tapes and think about this chapter of your life closing?
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#35. Men don't like Julia Roberts? Nope. Her teeth scare them. Good to know.
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#36. Fuck off, I said. Which always means I've lost an argument. I started backing out of the tomb.
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#37. Is this the first time you've peed around another human being?"
"Around a guy," she shouted, "yes!"
"I didn't ask for this!" Gabe shouted back. He started humming loudly - " The Imperial March".
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#38. That's when Georgie decided, during that cocksure kiss, that Neal was what she needed to be happy.
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#39. Sometimes, even when they were talking, they weren't really talking. Sometimes they were just negotiating each other. Keeping each other posted.
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#40. I loved you before I met you, and I loved you the moment I held you. And I never meant to leave you so soon.
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#41. Living is what you promise yourself you'll do after the next chapter.
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#42. A few minutes later he texted her: 'IDEA .. if your bored and you miss me you should write some dirty fan fiction about us. you can read it to me later. great idea right?'
Cath smiled down at the phone stupidly.
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#43. Look ... " Cath said. "I can't just let strange guys into my room. I don't even know your name. This whole situation is too rapey." "Rapey?
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#44. Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
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#45. The world's sweetest dimples and the boy who never laughs.
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#46. Everything has been a disaster since I decided my life as it was wasn't good enough."
"It wasn't good enough," she said.
"It was good enough for me."
"Then why have you been trying so hard to change it?
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#47. 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.)
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#48. Neal had nice lips.
Maybe everybody had nice lips, and you only really noticed it when you stared at their mouths all the time.
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#49. Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen - because you love each other.
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#50. But I think Simon might be the only person who really loved the Mage. I know he killed him, but he's probably the person who was saddest to see him go.
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#51. She climbed into bed and clenched her eyes and jaw and fists - held everything clenched until she could breathe without screaming.
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#53. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;
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#54. I want to be someone's right now, Simon, not their happily ever after.
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#55. Tell me now, won't you ever wonder what it would have been like to be with someone else?
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#56. When something small happens, something almost imperceptible, and it changes everything.
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#57. The arguments in her brain were like a swarm of people running from a burning building and getting stuck in the door.
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#58. Levi was thin and weedy, and his hair
well, his hair
but everything about him made Cath feel loose and immoral.
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#59. How do you even know when you're anywhere near marrying someone? Is that question about time? Or distance?
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#60. Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.
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#61. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm.
And Eleanor disintegrated.
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#62. 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.
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#63. What happened to you?" Seth was out of his chair and circling her. "You look like Britney Spears, back when she was dating backup dancers and walking around gas stations barefoot.
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#64. Beth, I love you. I love you more than I ever
meant to. More than I ever say.
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#65. He lets his hand fall, and I catch it. Because I'm weak. Because I'm a constant disappointment to myself.
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#67. She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.
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#68. 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.
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#69. That's what people say
'It's not goodbye'
when they're too afraid to face what they're really feeling.
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#70. I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.
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#71. 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.
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#72. I can't help but think,' Park would say during taekwando. 'I can't turn off my brain.
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#73. It was all true. You are rotting here."
"Maybe," he said. "Maybe I'm ripening.
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#74. That part of the Skinny Bitch diet?" "We're skinny bitches on weekdays," Courtney said, "and drunk bitches on the weekend." Cath tried to catch Wren's eye. "I don't think
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#75. This wedding is your parents' fault. They named her Kiley. She was doomed from birth to marry a hunky, fratty premed major.
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#77. Like realizing toward the end of a logic puzzle that you'd made a mistake early on, and that there's no way to reach the solution without starting over. Without erasing everything. Without throwing out all of your assumptions.
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#78. She'd be nothing without them. Nothing. But without her? They'd be exactly the same.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Neal didn't like to be asked things. It made his jaw tense. He'd give you a flippant answer. Like, whatever you were asking, it wasn't any of your business.
Like nothing was anyone's business.
Like nobody should ask questions that didn't absolutely need to be answered.
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#81. Cath liked Levi. A lot. She liked looking at him. She liked listening to him -- though sometimes she hated listening to him talk to other people. She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn't cost him anything, like he'd never run out. He made everything look so easy.
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#83. You wait. You wait until you forget that you're waiting, until you forget that there's anything to you beyond stillness and quiet; an ant crawls over your knee, and you don't flinch.
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#85. If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. This was a holy day for her
it was a cosmic event. This was her planets lining up. (Tatooine, Coruscant, Hoth.)
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#86. She's like Eeyore if Eeyore hung out with goats all the time instead of letting Pooh and Piglet cheer him up.
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#87. You can say what you want, Jennifer, but we both know who's going to pick up the pieces when this all falls apart,
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#89. Roo-ah-rooo-ahhh.
What's that?
It's the Cute Guy Alarm.
It sounds like a bird.
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#90. Dad. Why haven't you called me? I left you a million messages." "You left me too many messages. You shouldn't be calling me or even thinking about me. You're in college now. Move on." "It's just school, Dad. It's not like we have irreconcilable differences.
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#91. I know that you like me,' she said.
'You know that I love you.
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#93. Do you feel like he ignores you?" "No. I feel like he doesn't see me.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Looking at you was just like looking into the sun.
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#97. Honor students
black, white, or Asia Minor
tended to be nicer. Maybe they were just as mean on the inside, but they were scared of getting in trouble. Or maybe they were just as mean on the inside, but they'd been trained to be polite
to give up their seats for old people and girls.
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#98. Love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.
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#99. The girl looked older than Cath. Even with her eyes closed. Levi's other hand was tangled in her long, blond hair, and he was kissing her with his mouth smiling and open. He made it look so easy.
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#100. You don't do magic," she said, trying to smile modestly and mostly succeeding. "You are magic.
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