Rainbow Rowell Landline Quotes

When I wake up on Sunday Mornings - late, you always let me sleep in - I come looking for you, and you're in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect orbit. And you put their hair in pigtails and you let them wear whatever madness they want, and Alice planted a fruit cocktail tree and Noomi ate a butterfly, and they look like me because they're round and golden, but they glow for you. ~ Rainbow Rowell

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Sharing a room with the person you hate most is like sharing a room with a siren [...] You can't ignore that person, and you never get used to them. It never stops being painful. ~ Rainbow Rowell

It's like asking me, 'How would you feel if you were a frog?' Well, I wouldn't be me then, would I? I'd be a frog. Do frogs even have feelings? ~ Rainbow Rowell

Sunlight burns me," I say.
He shrugs. "Me, too."
"You're an idiot, Snow. ~ Rainbow Rowell

He likes to think he's Paul McCartney. But Paul McCartney is a gentle soul. And a monogamist. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Micah plays baseball, and he has a face so symmetrical, you could summon demons on it. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor pushed Park's hands forward. 'Why do you want to talk about this?'
He pushed back. 'Because. It's your life. Because I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you ... '
'Yes,' she said, crossing her arms. 'Barriers. Caution tape. I'm doing you a favor. ~ Rainbow Rowell

You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Bring it on, Tron! I dare you. Try to take away my freedom of expression. I'm a journalist. A free-speech warrior. I serve in the Army of the First Amendment. I didn't take this job for the bad money and the regressive health care coverage. I'm here for the truth, the sunshine, the casting open of closed doors! < ~ Rainbow Rowell

He's different," Cath said. "He's older. He smokes. And he drinks. And he's probably had sex. I mean, he looks like he has."
Reagan raised her eyebrows like Cath was talking crazy. And Cath thought - not for the first time, but for the first time since last night - that Levi had probably had sex with Reagan. ~ Rainbow Rowell

She smelled like gardenias. Plus something muskier, gardenias with carnal knowledge. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual. ~ Rainbow Rowell

This isn't like me. I don't feel like myself. The old me thought she would always prevail because she was always right. I'd like some of that confidence back now. Even if it did come with a heaping helping of ignorance. ~ Rainbow Rowell

There were moments - not just today, moments every day since they'd met - when Eleanor made him self-conscious, when he saw people talking and he was sure they were talking about them. Raucous moments on the bus when he was sure that everyone was laughing at them. And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her.
Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Just ... easing away. Recovering the six inches between them. He'd roll the thought over in his head until the next time he saw her alone in the cafeteria.
Whenever he saw Eleanor, he couldn't think about pulling away. He couldn't think about anything at all. Except touching her. ~ Rainbow Rowell

I just ... ," Cath started again: "I realized that I'm not cut out for fiction-writing."
Professor Piper blinked and pulled her head back. "What are you talking about? You're exactly cut out for it. You're a Butterick pattern, Cath
this is what you were meant to do. ~ Rainbow Rowell

I didn't tell him, I never told him. Not in a way that he believed. Not in a way that he could let in and hold on to. Everything he was to me. That he was everything.
Simon, Simon . . .
You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.
I'd wake up every morning and tell myself . . .
I'd tell myself . . .
"You live in fear! In denial!"
Simon is on the ground. His wing is bent the wrong way. His blood is red and abundant. It smells like brown butter. His hair is a mess, his face is in the sand. He doesn't know how much I love him. He's never really heard it.
I'd wake up every morning and tell myself . . .
"Simon . . . love . . . get up. We still have to save Agatha."
Simon is on the ground.
This will end in flames. ~ Rainbow Rowell

What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? ... Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy? ~ Rainbow Rowell

Don't pigeonhole me, Georgie. I'm infinite. ~ Rainbow Rowell

I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page ~ Rainbow Rowell

Cath shuddered, and her dad squeezed her tight. "When I think about her coming here," she said, "it's like that scene in "The Fellowship of the Ring" when the hobbits are hiding from the Nazgul."
"Your mother isn't evil, Cath."
"That's just how I feel."
He was quiet for a few seconds. "Me, too. ~ Rainbow Rowell

A relationship isn't about the end. It's about being together every step of the way. ~ Rainbow Rowell

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

He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Just because I knew I was going to die like this doesn't mean I'm ready for it. I wish I'd been nicer to my mum this morning. I wish I were wearing something other than leggings and Ugg boots. I always figured I'd make a more beautiful corpse ~ Rainbow Rowell

She smelled like the fifth of July, like sweat and spent bottle rockets. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Don't mind these shitheads. I had to bring them, it's my turn to be designated driver. They won't kill our game, though, they hang in the kiddie section."
"No worries." Lincoln said.
"What?"
"No worries!" Lincoln wasn't worried. He didn't have any game to kill. ~ Rainbow Rowell

I'm ending this.'
'No. Come on. It's not worth it.'
'You are,' he said fiercely, looking at her.
'You're worth it. ~ Rainbow Rowell

You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. ~ Rainbow Rowell

There's no shame with Park. Nothing is dirty. Because Park is the sun, and that's the best way she could think to explain it. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor looked like her mother through a fish tank. Rounder and softer. Slurred. Where her mother was statuesque, Eleanor was heavy. Where her mother was finely drawn, Eleanor was smudged. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Money is a cruel thing. It's the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love. ~ Rainbow Rowell

I don't like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you ~ Rainbow Rowell

A vampire who's afraid of the dark, for Crowley's sake. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience. ~ Rainbow Rowell

It was a good weekend. Five thousand words of Carry On. Fish tacos with radish and shredded cabbage. Only two more conversations about Wren. And Sunday afternoon brought Levi back, taking her front steps two at a time. ~ Rainbow Rowell

There followed a long go-nowhere conversation during which she tried to memorize the planes of his face. ~ Rainbow Rowell

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love. ~ Rainbow Rowell

What would we do together?" Cath asked. "He'd want to go to the bar,and I'd want to stay home and write fanfiction. ~ Rainbow Rowell

How do you get through any of your classes?" Cath had hours of assigned reading, almost every single night.
"Coping strategies."
"Such as?"
"I record my lectures and listen to them later. Professors usually cover most of what's on the test in class. And I find study groups."
"And you lean on Reagan --"
"Not just Reagan." He grinned. "I'm really good at quickly identifying the smartest girl in every class."
Cath frowned at him. "God, Levi, that's so exploitive."
"How is it exploitive? I don't make them wear miniskirts. I don't call them 'baby.' I just say, 'Hello, smart girl, would you like to talk to me about Great Expectations?'"
"They probably think you like them."
"I do like them."
"If it wasn't exploitive, you'd harass smart boys, too --"
"I do, in a pinch. Do you feel exploited, Cather?" He was still grinning at her over his coffee cup.
"No," she said, "I know that you don't like me."
"You don't know anything."
"So, this is old hat for you? Finding a girl to read a whole book to you?"
He shook his head. "No, this is a first."
"Well, now I feel exploited," she said, setting her drink down and reaching for the book.
"Thank you," he said.
"Chapter seven --"
"I'm serious." Levi pulled the book down and looked at her. "Thank you."
Cath held his eyes for a few seconds. Then she nodded and pulled back the book. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Clerks really inspired me. I was like, Wait a minute. You can write a whole movie that's just talking and relationships and Star Wars jokes? I CAN DO THAT! ~ Rainbow Rowell

That's a voice that arrives on a chariot drawn by dragons ~ Rainbow Rowell

Maybe. I don't know. I don't think it matters what I think or what I did or didn't see coming. You had to see it for yourself. You had to see it through. ~ Rainbow Rowell

I'm not sure it's that simple...."
That Baz is a vampire?"
"No, he's definitely a vampire," I say. "I guess it is that simple. But you can't tell anyone, Agatha."
"Simon, you've already told everyone. You've been telling everyone since we were third years."
"Yeah, but nobody believed me."
"I believed you. ~ Rainbow Rowell