Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Let’s get an Uber, at least?”

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

56. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

58. “Five feet apart. Deal?”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

60. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

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63. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

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66. “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

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. “Take a painting class with Bob Ross.”

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

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

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71. “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

72. “I mean to, like, draw.”

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

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74. “You want a problem to fix? Fix how you look at me.”

— Rachael Lippincott

75. “For saying something real.”

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76. “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

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

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79. “Volunteer for an important political cause.”

— Rachael Lippincott

80. “He’s breathing for you.”

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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

83. “Jason and Hope.”

— Rachael Lippincott

84. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

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

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88. “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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89. “Learn to play the piano.’ Done!”

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90. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

92. “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

93. “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

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

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

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96. “Speak fluent French’ –.”

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

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

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

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100. “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