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Heart Quotes by Rainbow Rowell

52 Heart quotes by Rainbow Rowell

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A dark, remote room sets the scene in Rainbow Rowell’s musings. Her characters wrestle with boredom, inner craziness, and the feeling that their bodies hold purpose beyond mere support. She also shows how memories linger in reviews and how self‑reflection can reveal hidden confidence.

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She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

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“He had the smilingest face she'd ever seen.”

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“He'd stopped trying to bring her back.”

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There was just no fear in her.

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“Her heart leapt out to him before she could stop it.”

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“If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.”

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I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.

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“He'd stop trying to bring her back.”

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“Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn’t even remember figuring it out.”

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“Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping.”

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Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

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“She almost sounded sane... If you didn't know that she was acting rational on the far side of crazy.”

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“They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.”

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“(Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.)”

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“Georgie never thought she’d be old enough to talk about life in big decade-long chunks like this.”

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“He was touching her all the places she was afraid to be touched…”

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“Even now, ten states away and half done with her, this Neal still thought she was better that he deserved. More than…

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“This room was worse than she thought. Dark. Remote. Practically in the trees. Practically Enchanted. A calculus test would feel intimate in…

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Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a…

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

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

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“Sometimes it seemed like she would never be able to give Park anything like what he'd given her. It was like he…

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Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t…

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Well, at first, I was sure that he would feel the cosmic forces pulling us together. I wanted him so badly, I…

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“He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different—because she wasn’t afraid to…

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Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from…

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“She wouldn't pick up a fight him just because she was bored.”

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“Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn’t want.”

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“If only Geprgie could figure out how to call herself in the past, she'd tell herself how young and lovely she was.”

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“Too much crying, she thought. Too many kinds. She was tired of being the one who cried.”

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She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.

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“Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.”

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She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.

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“The arguments in her brain were like a swarm of people running from a burning building and getting stuck in the door.”

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He tried to remember how this happened – how she went from someone he’d never met to the only one who mattered.

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Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

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She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much…

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“Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone.…

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“She liked it best when he read the X-Men, even though she didn't get everything that was going on there; the X-Men…

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“Cath held him even tighter. He was good. He was good, and she didn’t want to lose him. Not that she felt…

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Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome.

“She wouldn't pick up a fight him just because she was bored.”

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“Te informo de que mi respuesta a tus próximas doce afirmaciones va a ser: «¿Cómo dices?»”

“Dude. Let it go. Good riddance to bad rubbers.”

He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

“Tell me more about the mountains, Georgie said, because she wasn't really sure what to ask. Because ' tell me where I went wrong'…

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

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“You need to cool down first.” “I’m cool.” “Simon. You’re never cool.” “That hurts, Penny.” “It shouldn’t. It’s one of the reasons I love…

“She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror. Dance. Dress. Try a…