Rainbow Rowell Quotes

You'd have to spend a lot of time with me before I'd be comfortable enough to show my dark side.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

I'm as clean as the days are long.

She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

More than his exterior hit me. I felt warm and safe just being with him. He brought comfort after my terrible day. So often with other people I felt a need to be center of attention, to be funny and always have something clever to say. It was a habit I needed to shake. But with him I never felt like I had to be anything more than what I already was. I didn’t have to entertain him or think up jokes or even flirt. It was enough to just be together, to be so completely comfortable in each other’s presence—we lost all sense of self-consciousness.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It's just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn't fun.

Being married, I don't know how to describe it. It's very comfortable when you find the right person. It all comes together beautifully.

I love my husband so much. I love our family. I love our dynamic. I'm proud to be in the relationship that I am because it's based on love. Pure love.

To me, love means being free of your own bondage and connecting to another soul.

I'm happiest when I'm with people who have known me for years.

I think you first have to feel 100% comfortable with the person that you are with. I have written in sessions where I am just meeting the person for the first time and it is extremely difficult.

I'm not gonna say something unless I really feel comfortable around you. Unless I feel like I know you, I'm not gonna really open up.

A good way to keep your relationship together is not to scream in terror when you see your partner naked.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.