1,271 Quotes by Rainbow Rowell

She was dressed like she wanted people to look at her. Or maybe like she didn’t get what a mess she was.

She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice;.

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.

If your as good as your word, words should be good enough.

I started making my list, my good things list, when I was 11, and I should probably cross a few things off, but that’s harder than you’d think.

They agreed about everything important and argued about everything else.

You know,” he said, “I keep wanting to say that it’s like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it’s more like someone else ate Simon Snow – like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet – and then threw up in here.

You don’t know when you’re twenty-three. You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there.

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.