Rainbow Rowell Quotes about Love

He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that, because she was kind. And before that, because she was smart and funny. Because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. Because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. Because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she'd have to say about it--how many stars she'd give it and why.

Rainbow Rowell

Love, Beautiful, Stars

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

Rainbow Rowell

Love, Butterfly, Hands

Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.71, Macmillan

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.

Rainbow Rowell

Love, Fall, Commitment

Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.203, St. Martin's Press

You don't know when you're twenty-three. 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. She didn't know at twenty-three.

Rainbow Rowell

Love, Lying, Team

Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.201, St. Martin's Press

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.

Rainbow Rowell

Love, Air, Opposites

Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.80, St. Martin's Press

Rainbow Rowell Quotes about Love

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