Quotes by Rainbow Rowell

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“ I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens. “

-Rainbow Rowell-

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said.He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Shut up Simon, I'm going to have my way with you on the Mage's bed

And then my father figured out-I'm not sure who told him, Fiona won't have- that Simon and I were being extremely homosexual together

Don't make me angry-kiss you.

I remember seeing her and thinking that I’d never seen anything so beautiful. And that if you were that beautiful, that graceful, nothing could ever really touch you. It would be like being a lion or a unicorn. Nobody could really touch you, because you w

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.

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothi

I love you more than I hate everything else.

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.

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?

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

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.

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.

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.

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.

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.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

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.

Introducing Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author known for young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park (2012), Fangirl (2013), and Carry On (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim.
She was the writer of the 2017 revival of Marvel Comics' Runaways and is currently the writer for She-Hulk. After leaving her position as a columnist, Rowell began working for an ad agency and writing what would become her first published novel, Attachments, as a pastime. Rowell gave birth to her first son during this period and paused work on the manuscript for two years. The novel, a contemporary romantic comedy about a company's IT guy who falls in love with a woman whose email he has been monitoring, was published in 2011. Kirkus Reviews listed it as one of the outstanding debuts that year.