Rainbow Rowell Quotes - Page 3

(Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.)

You’ve read the books?”
“I’ve seen the movies.”
Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.”
“I’m not really a book person.”
“That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

Sometimes, it seemed like she was trying to hide everything that was pretty about her. Like she wanted to look ugly.

Maybe I'm some sort of perverted cartoon-sexual.

Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.

Her heart leapt out to him before she could stop it.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing.

Georgie pretended to dance. She clung to Neal's shirt. They rubbed their noses together. "You're my wife," Neal said, and then he laughed, and she tried to catch his dimples with her teeth. (Like if she caught them she might get to keep them.)

"Yours," she said.

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.

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.

Best of all, she had Park's songs in her head - and in her chest, somehow.

She had five tapes from him now - which meant, if her batteries lasted, she had four hundred and fifty minutes to spend with Park in her head, holding his hand.

It was terrible music to dance to; all you could really do was nod and hunch to the music. The girls all looked like they were listening to the same sad story. "Yes, yes, yes, that's awful. Yes, yes, yes.

I also knew that music was pretty much the only thing in life that he felt was worth the hassle.

I had seen him on campus before. He was always wearing this yellow sweatshirt and giant headphones. The kind of headphones that say, “I may not take my clothes seriously. I may not have brushed or even washed my hair today. But I pronounce the word ‘music’ with a capital ‘M.

Don't pigeonhole me, Georgie. I'm infinite.

I'm sorry Penelope."
"Don't waste my time with sorries,Simon.If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes,we'll never have time to be friends.

Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here. In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude.