1,271 Quotes by Rainbow Rowell

How could she ever doubt that he loved her? When loving her was what he did better than all the things he did beautifully.

Because part of me does want to trick you. Part of me wants to say whatever I have to say to make sure you’ll still want me. I want to tell you that it’ll be different—better. That I’ll be more sensitive, that I’ll compromise more. But I won’t be, Neal, I know I won’t be. And I don’t want to trick you. Nothing is ever going to change.

And it's not just my upper body," he said. "My whole body is stronger than yours. I can pin you in like thirty-five seconds.""Only because I let you" she said. "Because I love you.""Oh okay.""Don't sound so disappointed, Neal.""I'm pretty sure I don't sound disappointed at all.

I love you. I love you more than I hate everything else. We'll make our own enough-will you marry me?

Maybe this was why Neal always had his guards up. His eyes, unguarded, could burn tunnels through mountains.

Neal made up his mind as soon as he saw it.The future was going to happen, even if he wasn’t ready for it. Even if he was never ready for it.At least he could make sure he was with the right person.Wasn’t that the point of life? To find someone to share it with?And if you got that part right, how far wrong could you go? If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn’t everything else just scenery?

But maybe this was why. Maybe she was why. Now.

She spent the whole time in a fog. Lying in her bed, deliberately not calling him. Why should she call him? What was she supposed to say—sorry? Georgie wasn’t sorry. She wasn’t sorry that she knew what she wanted to do with her life. She wasn’t sorry that she was making it happen.

Neal wasn’t happy, and Georgie was why.