Rainbow Rowell Quotes

There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end, we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date-back when you were just a stranger to me. I've never let another in so soon.

When in doubt, I go to the phones a lot because it adds a new dimension and a new energy. It kind of takes me out of the equation if I feel like I irritated them or they aren't into the experience.

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.

Twitter? No, I'd rather use phone and texts.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects so you have something to point to when you want to make it real.

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did.

What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.