You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

— Rainbow Rowell

You kissed him, right? The only question is, do you want to kiss him again?

— Rainbow Rowell

You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to?" He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast-iron radiator. "I just...," he said. "Just?"" I need to live my life."" You aren't living your own life now?" she asked. "I certainly never tell you what to do."" No, I know, it's just..."" Just?"" It doesn't feel like I'm living my own life."" What?"" It feels like, as long as I stay home, I'm still living your life. Like I'm still a kid."" That's silly," she said." Maybe," he said.

— Rainbow Rowell

You looked like the girl I loved.

— Rainbow Rowell

You look like you. Only with the volume turned up.

— Rainbow Rowell

You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?

— Rainbow Rowell

Your mother was a hero. She developed a spell for domestic fever. And she was the youngest headmaster in Watford history.” Baz is looking at Penny like they’ve never met.“And,” Penny goes on, “she defended your father in three duels before he accepted her proposal.”“That sounds barbaric,” I say.”It was traditional,” BAZ says.”It was brilliant,” Penny says. “I’ve read the minutes.”“Where?” BAZ asks her.“We have them in our library at home,” she says “My dad loves marriage rites. Any sort of family magic, actually. He and my mother are bound together in five dimensions.

— Rainbow Rowell

Your own life starts the moment you're born. Before that, even."" I just, I feel like as long as I live with you, I won't... I'm not... It's like George Jefferson."" From the TV show?"" Right. George Jefferson. As long as he was on 'All in the Family', he was just somebody who made Archie Bunker's story more interesting. He didn't have anything of his own. He didn't have a plot or supporting characters. I don't know if you ever even got to see his house. But after he got his own show, George had his own living room and kitchen... and bedroom, I think. He even had his own elevator. Places for him to exist in, for his story to happen. Like this apartment. This is something that's mine.

— Rainbow Rowell

You think I'm cute?" He said thinly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

— Rainbow Rowell

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.

— Rainbow Rowell