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“I like my job," he said. "I see the same people every day. I remember their drinks, they like that I remember their drinks, I make them happy, and then they leave. It's like being a bartender, but you don't have to deal with drunks.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I know what it's like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“You're extra nice. With everyone. You go out of your way to make everyone feel special.'

'Well, what's wrong with that?'

'How is anyone supposed to know that they are special? How was I supposed to know you weren't just being nice?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Leaving campus felt like crossing the border.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Nothing was going right.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“And sometimes you held somebody's hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“...better to just get it over with.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“What's wrong with Starbucks?"

"It's a big, faceless corporation."

"He raised a good-natured brow. "So far, they've let me keep my face.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Cath wasn't trying to make new friends here.

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.)

But everyone around Cath—everybody in her classes and in the dorms—really was trying to make friends, and sometimes she'd have to be rude not to go along with it.

Campus life was just so predictable, one routine layered over another. You saw the same people while you were brushing your teeth and a different set of the same people in each class. The same people passing you every day in the halls...Pretty soon you were nodding. And then you were saying hello. And eventually someone would start a conversation, and you just had to go along with it.

What was Cath supposed to say, Stop talking to me?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Sometimes getting it is infinitely worse than not getting it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Working on this client is like making my brain dig its own grave.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I feel like if we set the table and pretend everything's normal. It's just going to be worse.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“How do you get through any of your classes?

I record my lectures and listen to them later. Professors usually cover most of what's on the test in class. And I find study groups.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“He's just a guy," Reagan said. "Of course he's different from you. You're never going to find a guy who's exactly like you—first of all, because that guy never leaves his dorm room...”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Even though she liked him, she didn't like parties. And she didn't want the first time she saw him after what had happened to be at a party. With party people. With any people.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Cath didn't want to look at a guy and picture the people he'd slept with...”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It's a cliche. I swear to God, every surviving Volvo produced between 1970 and 1985 is being driven by quirky fictional girls.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“But it's like John Lennon writing with...Taylor Swift instead of Paul McCartney.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It was one of those smiles that made her think he might be flirting.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Stupid, quirky girl character. Stupid, pretentious boy character. No dragons.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It was disorienting to fall asleep in the light and wake up in the dark, instead of the other way around.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Do you think Dad let it? Do you think he chose to fall apart when she left?

'Yes!' Wren was shouting now. "And I think he keeps choosing. I think you both do. You'd rather be broken than move on.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Why couldn't Santa get out of bed on Christmas?'

'Because he's North bi-Polar.'

'No,' Cath said, 'because the bipolar bears were really bringing him down.'

'Because Rudolph's nose just seemed too bright.'

'Because the chimneys make him Claus-trophobic.'

'Becauseâ€�' Her dad laughed. '—the highs and lows were too much for him? On the sled, get it?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Tell me about it,' he said. 'Tell me why you're so unhappy.'

'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.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I find Ugg boots really comforting,' Cath said.

'Why? Because they're warm?'

'No. Because they remind me that we live in a place where you can still get away with, even get excited about, Ugg boots. In fashionable places, you have to pretend that you're over them, or that you've always hated them. But in Nebraska, you can still be happy about new Ugg boots. That's nice. There's no end of the innocence.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“And I know he's not mine, but that doesn't matter to me. I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“And I want that kiss to have been the start of something. Not the end.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Ghosts aren't pale, they're translucent.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl