Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

53. “Five feet apart. Deal?”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

55. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

58. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

61. “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

62. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

65. “I thought they were brown.”

— Rachael Lippincott

66. “Do I need to pose or anything?”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

68. “For saying something real.”

— Rachael Lippincott

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

72. “Volunteer for an important political cause.”

— Rachael Lippincott

73. “He’s breathing for you.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

76. “Jason and Hope.”

— Rachael Lippincott

77. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

81. “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

82. “Learn to play the piano.’ Done!”

— Rachael Lippincott

83. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

89. “Speak fluent French’ –.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

93. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

96. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

100. “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