Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2024 Update)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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11. “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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12. “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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13. “It’s just life, Will. It’ll be over before we know it.”

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “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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17. “Cystic fibrosis will steal no more from me. From now on, I am the thief.”

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

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

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “Alex Blackwood does not get frazzled. Definitely not over Molly Parker.”

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

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.”

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

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

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29. “My insides turn cold.”

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30. “Let’s get an Uber, at least?”

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31. “Study all the works of William Shakespeare.”

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32. “When you spend as much time as I have worrying about what to say and how to say it and it still comes out wrong, it just becomes easier to not say anything at all.”

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

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34. “Five feet apart. Deal?”

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

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36. “I wonder, all too often, what it would be like to have lungs this healthy. This alive. I take a deep breath, feeling the air fight its way in and out of my body.”

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37. “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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38. “En este mundo, todos respiramos aire prestado.”

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

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

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41. “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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42. “That’s how I knew you were lying that night. I know the real you. Just like you know the real me.”

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

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44. “It was like all the bad luck she never had hit at once. It wasn’t one of those small miracles where they say you have weeks to live and you get months, or a year, or a decade. They gave her six months, and she didn’t make it two. Her luck ran out, Blake. My luck ran out.”

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

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

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47. “For saying something real.”

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48. “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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49. “I pull my sweatshirt closer to my body, looking away at the pile of yoga mats in the corner, trying to ignore the fact that that open space?”

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50. “She’s looking at me like I’m the person she loves most in this world and I just broke her heart, which is so much worse.”

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