Rainbow Rowell - Life Quotes

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I don't know if I even believe in that anymore. The right guy. The perfect guy. The one. I've lost faith in "the". How do you feel about "a" and "an"? Indifferent. So you're considering a life without articles?

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

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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.

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

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You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things happen for reasons. People make sense. But that's not my life. Nobody in my life makes sense…

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When Cath's eyes closed, her eyelids stuck. She wanted to open them. She wanted to get a better look at Levi's too-dark eyebrows, she wanted to admire his crazy, vampire hairline—she had a feeling this was never going to happen again and that it might even ruin what was left of her life, so she wanted to open her eyes and bear some witness.

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Just … isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'? It sets a dangerous precedent. For avoiding pain? For avoiding life.

Rainbow Rowell
What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?

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But I saw this video, not even the whole thing, and I just knew that it was going to be my favorite song for...for the rest of my life. And it still is. It's still my favorite song... Lincoln, I said you were cute because I didn't know how to say—because I didn't think I was allowed to say—anything else. But every time I saw you, I felt like I did the first time I heard that song.

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