Rainbow Rowell Welcome to our collection of popular quotes by

You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.

• 1 Like
• Love

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

• 1 Like
• Love

I’m sort of… coming off a bad relationshipWhen did it end?Slightly before it started.

• 1 Like
• Love

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

• 1 Like
• Time

I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.

• 1 Like
• Love

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.

• 1 Like
• Love

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.

• 1 Like
• Love

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

• 1 Like
• Love

When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

• 1 Like
• Writing

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

• 1 Like
• Love

It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one—and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.

• 1 Like
• Love

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

• 1 Like
• Life Lessons

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.

• 1 Like
• Love

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

• 1 Like
• Motivational

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.

• 1 Like
• Love