alexis > alexis's Quotes

“Why do we write fiction?" Professor Piper asked.
Cath looked down at her notebook.
To disappear.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“She was tired of being the one who cried.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Reading is not lonely.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes, we’ll never have time to be friends.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Words are very powerful and they take on more power the more that they’re spoken.… the more that they’re said and read and written, in specific, consistent combinations”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Books don't have intermissions either."

"What do they have?"

"Endings.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I'm not really a book person."
"That might be the most idiotic thing you've ever said to me.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“There was just no fear in her.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“They were just stories, but stories weren't just anything.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“But it didn't break me. Nothing can break me unless I let it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Now is all you ever get.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Words are very powerful.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“To really be a nerd, she's decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl