Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Lighten up, Stella. It’s just life. It’ll be over before we know it.”

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2. “We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. I never understood the importance of touch, his touch... until I couldn’t have it.”

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3. “Cystic fibrosis will steal no more from me. From now on, I am the thief.”

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4. “There’s one theory I like that says in order to understand death, we have to look at birth. So, while we’re in the womb, we’re living that existence, right? We have no idea that our next existence is just an inch away. Maybe death is the same. Maybe it’s just the next life. An inch away.”

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5. “En este mundo, todos respiramos aire prestado.”

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6. “I’m tired of living without really living. I’m tired of wanting things. We can’t have a lot of things. But we could have this.”

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7. “If this year has taught me anything, it’s that grief can destroy a person.”

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8. “Like my lesbian ass hasn’t religiously watched the movie adaptation with Helena Bonham Carter a thousand times more than that.”

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9. “If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first. And then I’ll die.”

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10. “Don’t think about what you’ve lost. Think of how much you have to gain.”

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11. “I’m not going far. I’ll always be here. Just an inch away. I promise.”

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12. “For the first time I feel the weight of every single inch, every millimeter, of the six feet between us.”

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13. “I know in that moment, even though it could not be more ridiculous, that if I die in there, I won’t die without falling in love.”

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14. “It’s just life, Will. It’ll be over before we know it.”

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15. “Human touch, we need that touch from the one we love almost as much as we need air to breathe. I never understood that until I couldn’t have it. This is my life with cystic fibrosis.”

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16. “I don’t know what I’d do without you.”

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17. “Wanting something that I could’t have. But now what I want isn’t outside. It’s right here, close enough to touch. But I can’t. I didn’t know it was possible to want something so bad you could feel it in your arms and your legs and in every breath you take.”

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18. “How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”

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19. “I bite on my lower lip to hide my smile.”

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20. “We smile at each other, and even though there are a million reasons why I shouldn’t, looking at her now, I can’t help feeling like I’m falling in love with her.”

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21. “She’s fighting for her life,” she finally says, meeting my eyes in the glass. “She doesn’t know what’s ahead of her or why she’s fighting. It’s just... instinct, Will. Her instinct is to fight. To live.”

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22. “Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.”

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23. “I’m tired of living without really living. I’m tired of wanting things.”

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24. “I think about that very last breath... sucking for air, pulling and pulling and getting nothing. I think about my chest muscles ripping and burning, absolutely useless. No air – no nothing, just black.”

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25. “One step at a time,” he says, holding my gaze. “This is your chance. And that is what we both want. Don’t think about what you’ve lost. Think of how much you have to gain. Live, Stella.”

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26. “I want to stay. I want to stay in the doorway, and right by her side. Even if it’s always five feet apart, six feet even, but for exactly that reason, I exhale, and with everything in me, I turn and walk away.”

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27. “I look at the holiday lights in the distance, twinkling like stars, calling out to me. This time I respond.”

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28. “If this is all we get, then let’s take it. I want to be fearless and free,” she says, giving me a look, daring me. “It’s just life, Will. It’ll be over before we know it.”

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29. “I need to be willing to play the game. I need to be willing to put myself out there, and be vulnerable, and take chances, even though I might lose.”

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30. “His voice is deep. Soft. I know in that moment, even though it could not be more ridiculous, that if I die in there, I won’t die without falling in love. “Promise?” I ask. He nods and stretches his arm out, holding up a gloved pinky across the distance. I take it and we pinky promise. The smallest contact, but the first time we’ve ever touched. And right now that doesn’t scare me.”

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31. “Some things have to fall apart because they don’t belong together, but some things belong so much they could never break.”

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32. “Secretly, I think the one thing I do want is to get out of here. To go to a big city somewhere, away from all the sympathetic, knowing smiles. Away from everybody knowing everything about everyone else. Where I’m able to figure out who I am and what I’m like, without an entire town of people thinking they already know.”

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33. “Whatever the trouble is, don’t run from it. Don’t end up old and alone like me.”

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34. “Alex Blackwood does not get frazzled. Definitely not over Molly Parker.”

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35. “You scare me Stella.” I looked at him, frowning. “What? Why?” He looks into my eyes his voice serious. “You make me want a life I cant have.” I know exactly what he means. He shakes his head his face somber. “That’s the scariest thing I’ve ever felt.”

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36. “Getting my hopes up when a hospital is involved doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.”

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37. “Se proprio devo morire, prima vorrei vivere.”

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38. “I didn’t know it was possible for a person to make old things become new again.”

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39. “I think a well-drawn cartoon can say more than words ever could, you know? It could change minds.”

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40. “Maybe death is the same. Maybe it’s just the next life. An inch away.”

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41. “I lie back, putting my hands behind my head, the room seeming uncomfortably quiet even though it’s still just me in here. But as I roll over and turn out the light, I realize for the first time in a long time, I don’t really feel alone.”

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42. “Because I’m pretty sure keeping me alive is the only thing keeping my parents going.”

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43. “Sistine Chapel with Abby.” No line through it.”

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44. “But we all die alone, don’t we? The people we love can’t go with us.”

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45. “Can’t you see you need each other? I want to say.”

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46. “I thought they were brown.”

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47. “Do I need to pose or anything?”

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48. “Her brown hair, identical to mine, was cut short and then, in the blink of an eye, gone completely.”

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49. “Pretty old school for someone who builds apps.”

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50. “My insides turn cold.”

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