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Landline Quotes
She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline — maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents’ generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
She was pretty sure Seth had practiced all his facial expressions and gestures in front of a mirror, and worked out which ones made him look like a cross between an Abercrombie model and a kitten.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
How’d you know he was the one?””I didn’t know. I don’t think either of us knew.”Heather rolled her eyes. “Neal knew — he proposed to you.””It’s not like that, ” Georgie said. “You’ll see. It’s more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the one — and then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you’re right.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
She could have just told him about the magic phone. Full disclosure. Then they could have solved it together. They could have Sherlocked and Watsoned from both endsof the timeline.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
I love you. I love you both so much.””To the moon and back?” Alice asked.”Oh my God, ” Georgie said, “so much farther.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Georgie, ‘ he said. Then he kissed her. That was it, really. That was when she added Neal to the list of things she wanted and needed and was bound to have someday. That’s when she decided that Neal was the person who was going to drive on those overnight trips. And Neal was the one who is going to sit next to her at the Emmys. He kissed her like he was drawing a perfectly straight line. He kissed her in India ink. That’s when Georgie decided, during that cocksure kiss, that Neal was what she needed to be happy.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
I love you more than I hate everything else.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
At the end of the day — after work, after trying to spend some sort of meaningful time with Alice and Noomi –Georgie was usually too tired to make things right with Neal before they fell asleep. So things stayed wrong.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
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
The snow came up to the top of Georgie’s calves – she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing…God, she’d never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn’t want them?
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Comedy writers don’t join fraternities.”Don’t pigeon hole me, Georgie, I’m infinite.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Neal huffed. Frustrated. “I hate that you thought I wouldn’t call–I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative?
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy…And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
She knew Neal loved her. Good for him for realizing it wasn’t enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
She thought of … the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Even if you break with me and crush my heart, I’m never getting back together with Dawn. I know that the world isn’t flat now, I’m not going back.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
She could have just told him about the magic phone. Full disclosure. Then they could have solved it together. They could have Sherlocked and Watsoned from both ends of the timeline
— 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
My life is like an O Henry story….the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
He didn’t laugh when he thought something was funny–he laughed when he was happy.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Things didn’t go bad between Georgie and Neal. Things were always bad — and always good. Their marriage was like a set of scales constantly balancing itself. And then, at some point, when neither of them was paying attention, they’d tipped so far over into bad, they’d settled there. Now only an enormous amount of good would shift them back. An impossible amount of good.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
You are very kind, ” he said. “Very wrong, but very kind.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
I’m extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
If they’d given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
I know the world is flat now, I’m not going back.
— Rainbow Rowell, Landline
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