Cherry Baby Quotes

“But the point of holidays—the point of family—was to mind everyone’s business.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“(Women are born with clocks in their hips and calendars in their bellies, and Cherry’s brain never stopped ticking.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“Men could love her. Men would. They’d touch her. Listen to her. Maybe even marry her. But they didn’t love her in a durable way. Not in a way she could trust. That would hold her weight.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“She thought about texting someone, but there came a point when you’d been so sad for so long, and so repeatedly, that you couldn’t actually bear telling people anymore. When it felt like you were retelling the same story.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“Cherry’s feelings for Russ were planted in an untainted part of her heart. They were an antidote, almost, to the tar-like grief that stuck to her.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“there came a point when you’d been so sad for so long, and so repeatedly, that you couldn’t actually bear telling people anymore. When it felt like you were retelling the same story.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“You’re alive, Cherry. Act like it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“I’m very pretty for a fat girl. It’s like being very pretty for someone with three eyes or no nose. Or very pretty for a malamute.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“velocity—she was speed plus direction. And helping”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“It all took twice as long without Tom’s help. Cherry didn’t have enough hands, and she was weighed down by déjà vu.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“That’s because of you,” he said. “Your rule about everything being either useful or beautiful.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“Cherry I’m seeing a guy that I went to college with. He’s nice. He’s employed. He’s not a widower, but we can’t have everything in life.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“Stacia’s son was turning three, and Cherry was invited to the party. This was when Cherry saw the adults in her life now, when their kids had parties.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“Cherry watched them for a while—then realized she was staring at people like some sort of twentieth-century weirdo. She should stare at her phone, like a normal person. She glanced over at the bar one more time—and right into the eyes of someone who was watching her. A man. He smiled.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“There were days when her eyes felt so full, the tears ran in rivulets. She'd swear that crying had never felt that way before- that before, she'd cry drops, and now, she cried streams. There must be some science to it, one sort of crying for transient pains and another sort for crippling grief.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“I didn’t come back for my stuff. I came back for you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby

“That’s who Cherry had been”
― Rainbow Rowell, Cherry Baby