Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “So is your plan to die really, really smart so you can join the debate team of the dead?”

— Rachael Lippincott

52. “Yeah, I went with my dad when I was little, before he left.” I’m too caught up in the memory to process what I’m saying, but the word “dad” feels weird on my tongue.”

— Rachael Lippincott

53. “Volunteer for an important political cause.”

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54. “He’s breathing for you.”

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55. “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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56. “Nah, unless, of course, a hospital there is claiming to have some new magical stem-cell therapy to cure B. cepacia.”

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57. “I don’t believe my eyes. You’re putting on your AffloVest.”

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58. “God, I love you.” The way he says it is so soft and real and the most wonderful thing.”

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

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60. “Always looking for ways to spend more time with me.”

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61. “Jason and Hope.”

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62. “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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63. “She’s probably planned every step she’s ever taken.”

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64. “Why did I tell her that? I never tell anyone that. I don’t think I’ve even mentioned my dad in years.”

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65. “Share everything I know about CF with others.”

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66. “That’s not enough. You’re supposed to do that.”

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67. “She gives me a big smile. “Don’t give me that. I see your pills behind you on your bedside table.”

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68. “I think you have a better shot at meeting Bob Ross.”

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69. “I hate these moments the most. The moments when you think you are healed just enough, and then something as simple as a bingo card makes every fiber feel raw.”

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70. “Learn to play the piano.’ Done!”

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71. “Death. That’s what I am. That’s what I am to Stella. The only thing worse than not being able to be with her or be around her would be living in a world that she didn’t exist in at all. Especially if it’s my fault.”

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72. “I just want you to be more you, instead of a little ball of quiet anxiety in the corner of the party.”

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73. “I’ve finished my burger and 75 percent of the fries in the amount of time it takes my mom to eat about three bites of her salad.”

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74. “You’re supposed to want to talk to me. You’re supposed to want to ask me how I’m doing. You’re supposed to care about how I’m doing, instead of it always being the other way around.”

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75. “If this is all we get, then lets take it.”

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76. “I bite my lip, knowing Will just got the same notification. But will he follow through?”

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77. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

78. “The bubbling cola spills out all over the table and the floor. Great.”

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79. “It’s impossible, though. To not make every single thing feel like a memory.”

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80. “She seems like she only exists in summer. Only made to swim in the waters of the ocean, the smell of sunshine and salt clinging to her clothes.”

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81. “Speak fluent French’ –.”

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82. “Nothing like actual repulsion to start off on the right foot.”

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83. “Seriously, do you ever do anything off list? No offense, but none of that sounds fun.”

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84. “The Divorce Diet doesn’t look good on you, Mom.”

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85. “If I were in Cabo this past week but stuck inside a hospital, I wouldn’t just be bummed. I’d be miserable.”

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86. “Money’s not as important as doing what you love.”

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87. “If you spend your life focusing on the never, then you’ll never actually do anything.”

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88. “But love isn’t something you scrape by for.”

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89. “Some of the flowers haven’t blossomed yet, and I can feel the promise of life just waiting to unfold from the tiny buds under the weight of my finger.”

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

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91. “Love is suffering, probably because you fall in love with someone you hardly know. And plenty of people are in love with love and not the actual person.”

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

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93. “Take a painting class with Bob Ross.”

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94. “Tell me about it, Stella. At least she’s got a shot.”

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95. “Phone number?” I finally manage to cough out. “No, Molly, their social security number.”

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96. “There’s something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they’ve been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there’s a certain kind of comfort in that.”

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

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98. “I mean to, like, draw.”

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99. “It didn’t hurt. I wasn’t scared.”

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100. “I thought they were brown.”

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