Quotes from Rainbow Rowell

I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.

If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.

I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

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

I miss you." "That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning." "It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

I wonder…," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes, we'll never have time to be friends.

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.

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.

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

I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn't get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

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

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

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

I'd know you in the dark," he said. "From a thousand miles away. There's nothing you could become that I haven't already fallen in love with.

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