Rainbow Rowell Quotes

I just always assume no one is listening.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

I hate being ignored.

Growing up, I felt a little bit invisible.

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.

Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.

I wonder that you will still be talking. Nobody marks you.

Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to.

When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you “best of all.” It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]

There is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exists or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence

When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.

..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

No one ever recognizes me.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.