Quote

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

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
Watching
Head
Sometimes
Like
Kleenex
Kitten
Helpless
Trapped
Boxes

More quotes by Rainbow Rowell

Image
Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?
Rainbow Rowell
Image
We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I miss you. That's stupid, she said. I saw you this morning. It's not the time, Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling. It's the distance.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. You're magic, she said.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I don't have to forgive you, Cath said. It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
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
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
Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
There's only of him, she thought, and he's right here.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I've never loved the name Rainbow - it seems like a name you'd give to your stuffed unicorn - but I really like having an unusual name. It stands out. And it made me feel like it was okay to stand out. To be different.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
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.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
You know, he said, I keep wanting to say that it's like Simon Snow threw up in here... but it's more like someone else ate Simon Snow—like somebody went to an all-you-care-to-eat Simon Snow buffet—and then threw up in here.
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