Rainbow Rowell Quotes

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

You can't control where your heart goes.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

You don't know why you fall in love.

Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.

I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.

I stared into Jared's eyes, and the strangest thing happened. All the melting and melding I had just been through was shoved aside, into the smallest part of my body, the little corner that I took up physically. The rest of me yearned toward Jared with the same desperate, half-crazed hunger I'd felt since the first time I'd seen him here. This body barely belonged to me or to Melanie-it belonged to him.

Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.

I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.

I could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down, Give me somethin' that'll haunt me when you're not around; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile.

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

Reason is not what decides love.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.