Rainbow Rowell: "Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is..."

About Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author known for young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park (2012), Fangirl (2013), and Carry On (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim.

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Everything true was too hard to write—he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

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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.

—Rainbow Rowell in Fangirl

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If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

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I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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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 in Landline

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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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Envy is a con man, a tugger at your sleeve, a knocker at your door. Let me in for just a moment, it says, for just one moment of your time.… The antidote to envy is one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself. It drives the spooks away.

—Bonita Freedman

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I have not failed. I have found ten thousand ways that won't work.

—Thomas Edison

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

—George Bernard Shaw

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There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

—Joseph de Maistre

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Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen―because you love each other.

Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen—because you love each other.

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