Quote

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

Rainbow Rowell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
NE
Hanging
Scarf
Wounds
Slid
Fingers
Scarves
Hand
Eleanor
Open
Palm
Space
Silk
Hands
Palms
Around
Wound
Disintegrated

More quotes by Rainbow Rowell

Image
Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers. You were looking through my trash?
Rainbow Rowell
Image
What if I promise not to touch you? Cath laughed. Now I have zero incentive to come. What if I promise to let you touch me first? Are you kidding? I'm the untrustworthy person in this relationship. I'm all hands. I've seen no evidence of that, Cath. In my head, I'm all hands. I want to live in your head.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?
Rainbow Rowell
Image
So...I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than ... I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
The strange thing about seeing someone for first time in nine years is the way they look totally different, just for a second, a split second, and then they look at you the way they always have, as if no time has passed between you.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you?
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
Rainbow Rowell