Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I just want you to be more you, instead of a little ball of quiet anxiety in the corner of the party.”

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

58. “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

59. “My insides turn cold.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

66. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

68. “Five feet apart. Deal?”

— Rachael Lippincott

69. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

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73. “I thought they were brown.”

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74. “Do I need to pose or anything?”

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75. “Volunteer for an important political cause.”

— Rachael Lippincott

76. “He’s breathing for you.”

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

— Rachael Lippincott

78. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

79. “For saying something real.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

82. “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.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

84. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

86. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

88. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

91. “Learn to play the piano.’ Done!”

— Rachael Lippincott

92. “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

93. “I mean to, like, draw.”

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

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

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97. “Speak fluent French’ –.”

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98. “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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99. “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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100. “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