Rainbow Rowell Quotes

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So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

Rainbow Rowell

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.144, Hachette UK

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You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

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Beautiful, Winning, Forever

"The Importance Of Unconventional Beauty" by Rainbow Rowell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2013.

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People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.

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Falling In Love, Book, Fall

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

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Love, Relationship, Women

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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.

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Love, Art, Nice

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.149, St. Martin's Griffin

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I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.

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Romantic, My Love For You, Want

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.113, Macmillan

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And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.

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Hands, Facts, Alive

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.384, St. Martin's Griffin

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You look like a protagonist.

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Looks, Protagonists

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.113, Macmillan

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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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Love, Heart, Broken

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

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Heart, Want, Enough

Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.206, Hachette UK

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October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

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Autumn, Nurse, Grace

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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.

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Hurt, Hands, Firsts

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.271, St. Martin's Griffin

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There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.

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Believe, Knowing, Consciousness

Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.235, Hachette UK

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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.

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Soulmate, Love You, Math

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.271, St. Martin's Griffin

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I love you more than I hate everything else.

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Love, Hate, I Love You More

Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.71, St. Martin's Press

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

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Saving, Life Is, Ifs

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You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.

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Girl, Smart, Boys

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.234, St. Martin's Griffin

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You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.

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Forever, You Saved Me, Saved

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.279, St. Martin's Griffin

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I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

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Love, Thinking, Kind

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<> It's nice of you to say I'm your best friend. <> You are my best friend, dummy. <> Really? You are my best friend. But I always assumed that somebody else was your best friend, and I was totally okay with that. You don't have to say that I'm your best friend just to make me feel good. <> You're so lame. <> That's why I figured somebody else was your best friend.

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Nice, Feel Good, My Best Friend

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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.

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Happiness, Two, People

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.648, St. Martin's Griffin

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Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

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Hurt, Get Better, Ifs

Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.231, Hachette UK

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Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.

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Lying, Sleep, Thinking

Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.199, Hachette UK

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I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.

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Girl, Thinking, Differences

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I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.

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Song, And Love, Pieces

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.54, St. Martin's Griffin

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"If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like I have to disappear into myself to write books. I go away, into my head, for hours and weeks at a time, and I hate that I miss everything. It's pretty selfish to want to pause other people, isn't it?"

- Rainbow Rowell,

www.theguardian.com, added Sep 9, 2017

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