Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowellis an American author of young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park and Fangirl both received a great deal of critical acclaim in 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth24 February 1973
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
eyebrows long decision
Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago.
Reegan scowled at Cath. "Are you Zack, or are you Cody?".
glasses moments
Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.
sweaters scarves four
You're wearing at least four different kinds of sweater." "This is a scarf." "You look tarred and sweatered.
hurt giving-up pain
Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.
world eleanor
He wished that they could go through life like this. That he could physically put himself between Eleanor and the world.
friendship tired care
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
smart want-something people
It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.
girl that-girl shops
That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
kissing lunch guy
What about him?” she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. “Do you want to kiss him?” “I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.
sometimes kitten boxes
But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.
rude trying uptight
In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)
reading writing years
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.
lying sleep thinking
Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.