Rainbow Rowell
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.Collection: Teen
When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.Collection: Romantic
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.Collection: Romantic
It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.Collection: Romantic
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.Collection: Inspirational
You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.Collection: Beautiful
Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.Collection: Love
Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.Collection: Love
I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.Collection: Romantic
People who fall in love with books never really stop falling.Collection: Falling In Love
And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.Collection: Hands
Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.Collection: Love
October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!Collection: Autumn
You look like a protagonist.Collection: Looks
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.Collection: Heart
There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.Collection: Believe
What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.Collection: Soulmate
I love you more than I hate everything else.Collection: Love
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.Collection: Hurt
You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.Collection: Girl
If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?Collection: Saving
You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I'm yours. The me that's me right now is yours. Always.Collection: Forever
I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.Collection: Love
<> It's nice of you to say I'm your best friend. <> You are my best friend, dummy. <> Really? You are my best friend. But I always assumed that somebody else was your best friend, and I was totally okay with that. You don't have to say that I'm your best friend just to make me feel good. <> You're so lame. <> That's why I figured somebody else was your best friend.Collection: Nice
Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.Collection: Lying
Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.Collection: Hurt
Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.Collection: Happiness
You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?Collection: Glasses
Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers." "You were looking through my trash?Collection: Energy
I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.Collection: Girl
What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.Collection: Eye
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?Collection: Past
I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.Collection: Song
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 meCollection: Hurt
it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.Collection: Fall
I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.Collection: Trying
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.Collection: Thinking
The whole point of fanfiction is that you get to play inside somebody else's universe. Rewrite the rules. Or bend them. The story doesn't have to end. You can stay in this world, this world you love, as long as you want, as long as you keep thinking of new stories.Collection: Thinking
It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard." I didn't have any concept of what that path would look like. Maybe that's why I didn't publish my first book until I was 38.Collection: Book
He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.Collection: Crazy
If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.Collection: Hair
In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)Collection: Google
You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.Collection: Kissing
Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.” “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.” “Give me the laundry.” “Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.Collection: Kissing
There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.Collection: Handsome
Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destinationCollection: Drinking
You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.Collection: Winning
I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for youCollection: Love
You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.Collection: Toilets
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.Collection: Forgiving