Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
NE
Miss
Distance
Saws
Missing
Stupid
Hear
Morning
Levi
Time
Smiling

More quotes by Rainbow Rowell

Image
You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Everybody drinks, she said calmly. The Only Rational One. Your sister doesn't. When rolled her eyes. Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians. Objection, Cath said, reaching for a burrito.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
Maybe we should go on lots of double dates,” Cath said, “and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at the same time.” “Pfft,” Levi said, “I’m picking out my own dress.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I just had this feeling about you, she said. Is that foolish? I hope not.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing ... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?
Rainbow Rowell
Image
That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.
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
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
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!
Rainbow Rowell
Image
You look like a protagonist.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.
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
Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic they were practically domestically abusive.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost never mind when a movie changes or cuts something - as long as it helps the film work better.
Rainbow Rowell
Image
I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me.… Cather.
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