Landline Quotes

“You don't know when you're twenty-three.
You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.
She didn't know at twenty-three.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“How could she ever doubt that he loved her? When loving her was what he did better than all the things he did beautifully.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“When I wake up on Sunday Mornings - late, you always let me sleep in - I come looking for you, and you're in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect orbit. And you put their hair in pigtails and you let them wear whatever madness they want, and Alice planted a fruit cocktail tree and Noomi ate a butterfly, and they look like me because they're round and golden, but they glow for you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Fine," he moped. "I hope you’re very happy together. Cute little hobbit couple with lots of roly-poly hobbit babies." Georgie turned back to him, but didn’t stop walking away. "I’m not hobbity.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.”
― Sara Sheridan

“When I wake up on Sunday Mornings - late, you always let me sleep in - I come looking for you, and you're in the backyard with dirt on your knees and two little girls spinning around you in perfect orbit. And you put their hair in pigtails and you let them wear whatever madness they want, and Alice planted a fruit cocktail tree and Noomi ate a butterfly, and they look like me because they're round and golden, but they glow for you.”
― Rainbor Rowell

“Because part of me does want to trick you. Part of me wants to say whatever I have to say to make sure you’ll still want me. I want to tell you that it’ll be different—better. That I’ll be more sensitive, that I’ll compromise more. But I won’t be, Neal, I know I won’t be. And I don’t want to trick you. Nothing is ever going to change.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“And it's not just my upper body," he said. "My whole body is stronger than yours. I can pin you in like thirty-five seconds."
"Only because I let you" she said. "Because I love you."
"Oh okay."
"Don't sound so disappointed, Neal."
"I'm pretty sure I don't sound disappointed at all.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“I love you. I love you more than I hate everything else. We'll make our own enough-will you marry me?”
― Rainbow Rowell

“Maybe this was why Neal always had his guards up. His eyes, unguarded, could burn tunnels through mountains.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Neal made up his mind as soon as he saw it.
The future was going to happen, even if he wasn’t ready for it. Even if he was never ready for it.
At least he could make sure he was with the right person.
Wasn’t that the point of life? To find someone to share it with?
And if you got that part right, how far wrong could you go? If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn’t everything else just scenery?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“But maybe this was why. Maybe she was why. Now.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“She spent the whole time in a fog. Lying in her bed, deliberately not calling him. Why should she call him? What was she supposed to say—sorry? Georgie wasn’t sorry. She wasn’t sorry that she knew what she wanted to do with her life. She wasn’t sorry that she was making it happen.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Neal wasn’t happy, and Georgie was why.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“You shouldn’t need a staff of people larger than your own family. We don’t live in a manor.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“Good,” I say. And then I slam down the receiver.

That’s the best part about having a landline. You can slam it down.

You don’t get the joy of slamming a phone down when you’re on a cell phone. What can you do— press End Call really angrily?”
― Freida McFadden, The Surrogate Mother