She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Georgie. You cannot be jealous of Dawn--that's like the sun being jealous of a lightbulb.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“His mouth was small, but bowed. Like a doll's. She wondered if he had trouble opening it wide enough to eat apples.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I really like you [...] Like, really like you. And I want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not… — Rainbow Rowell Kiss Copy Share Image
He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Maybe everybody had nice lips, and you only really noticed it when you stared at their mouths all the time. Georgie” — Rainbow Rowell Lips Copy Share Image
“And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her. Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn’t even seem to… — Rainbow Rowell Break up Copy Share Image
“Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them… — Rainbow Rowell Anger Copy Share Image
My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely… — Rainbow Rowell Coffee Copy Share Image
“Before she was allowed to take the albums out of their sleeves, Eleanor used to lay them out on the floor and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“The first time I came back to Watford, my second year, I climbed right into my bed and cried like a baby.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like… — Rainbow Rowell Anxious Copy Share Image
In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“He put his pen in his pocket, then took her hand and held it to his chest for a minute. It was… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Someone had given Georgie a magic phone and all she'd wanted to do with it is stay up late talking to her… — Rainbow Rowell Old boyfriend Copy Share Image
“She smelled like gardenias. Plus something muskier, gardenias with carnal knowledge.” — Rainbow Rowell Exes Copy Share Image
“It was nice to meet you,” Levi said, and you’d have to really know Levi to know that he didn’t mean it.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Drunk nerds. Not my thing.” “You like nerds.” “Not nerds who join fraternities,” Cath said. “That’s a whole subclass of nerds that… — Rainbow Rowell Drunk Copy Share Image
“Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too...” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“He didn't laugh when he thought something was funny--he laughed when he was happy.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn't cost him anything, like he'd never run… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.” — Rainbow Rowell Attachments Copy Share Image
I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Park didn't say anything. He just held his comics open wider and turned the pages more slowly.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“You can say what you want, Jennifer, but we both know who's going to pick up the pieces when this all falls… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“This room was worse than she thought. Dark. Remote. Practically in the trees. Practically Enchanted. A calculus test would feel intimate in… — Rainbow Rowell Cath Copy Share Image
He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing… — Rainbow Rowell Cheesy Copy Share Image
“Just enough angry, just enough indignant, just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.” — Rainbow Rowell Poet Copy Share Image
Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually… — Rainbow Rowell Friendship Copy Share Image
“That's when Georgie decided, during that cocksure kiss, that Neal was what she needed to be happy.” — Rainbow Rowell Happiness Copy Share Image
“Nick had cared about the story; Cath hadn’t. She’d cared about the writing. About the magic third thing that lived between them… — Rainbow Rowell Working together Copy Share Image
“You have friends. You have a clique. You walk down the hall like you own the place.” “You seem to have mistaken… — Rainbow Rowell Clique Copy Share Image
“ How could she ever doubt that he loved her? When loving her was what he did better than all the things… — Rainbow Rowell Doubt Copy Share Image
“So stop making it so hard, Cath. You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?” — Rainbow Rowell Fangirl Copy Share Image