Quotes from Rainbow Rowell

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'

These things end," she said. "They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It's implied that something else will follow.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.

He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn't bear to think of him loving her less.

Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.

He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more." "That sounds excruciating.

And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?

He pulled away to say he's sorry, and she shook her head no, because even though she really want him to be sorry, she wanted to kiss him more.

..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.

Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don't watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

Like, really like you. And i want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.

How do you feel when I smile at you?" he asked - and then he did smile at her, just a little. Not like myself, Cath thought. "Like an idiot," she said softly. "And I never want it to stop.

I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

You're my favorite person of all time.

"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."

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

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.

Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen—because you love each other.