Rainbow Rowell Quotes

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

Zee said, grumpily, “Liebling, this is not a good idea.” “Zee,” I told him, “I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

I have given my all Catch me catch me I think I'm gonna fall

In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

For a moment, I panic. It's that feeling of falling when you know without question, that you've lost control of your car, or made a mistake that's beyond repair. 'What do I do now?' I ask desperately. 'Tell me! What do I do now?' He remains calm. He looks at me closely and says, 'Keep living, Ed... It's only the pages that stop here.

Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.