1,271 Quotes by Rainbow Rowell

She didn’t have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. “You’re magic,” she said.

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who’d be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

In the right light, you are such a nerd.

You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can’t carry on at all.

Are you still mine?” I’d ask him. “Do you still want this?” But I don’t. Because I don’t want to hear him say no.

Trauma affects memory, my therapist said. Your brain closes off painful corridors. “That sounds good to me,” I told her. “Thank you, brain.

Yeah... I’m embarrassed that I held on for s long. That I really thought we could go on like we were.

Safety, stability – it’s an illusion. It’s a false god, Simon. It’s like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.

I’m glad that you’re out there somewhere reading this, eventually reading this, it makes me feel better.