Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “But we all die alone, don’t we? The people we love can’t go with us.”

— Rachael Lippincott

52. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

53. “Five feet apart. Deal?”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

56. “Let’s get an Uber, at least?”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

58. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

59. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

64. “So is your plan to die really, really smart so you can join the debate team of the dead?”

— Rachael Lippincott

65. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

67. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

71. “I thought they were brown.”

— Rachael Lippincott

72. “Do I need to pose or anything?”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

76. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

77. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

81. “As she helps tighten the corset, pulling on the intricately weaved ribbons, I pray to Jane Austen herself for strength.”

— Rachael Lippincott

82. “Learn to play the piano.’ Done!”

— Rachael Lippincott

83. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

84. “I mean to, like, draw.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

87. “Always forward,” she says, patting my chest. “Never back,” I say, smiling down at her.”

— Rachael Lippincott

88. “Speak fluent French’ –.”

— Rachael Lippincott

89. “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?”

— Rachael Lippincott

90. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

91. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

93. “She’s just Stella.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

97. “Jason and Hope.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

99. “Volunteer for an important political cause.”

— Rachael Lippincott

100. “He’s breathing for you.”

— Rachael Lippincott