Top 100 Rachael Lippincott Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Because I’m pretty sure keeping me alive is the only thing keeping my parents going.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

53. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

55. “Five feet apart. Deal?”

— Rachael Lippincott

56. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

60. “I thought they were brown.”

— Rachael Lippincott

61. “Do I need to pose or anything?”

— Rachael Lippincott

62. “Let’s get an Uber, at least?”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

65. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

67. “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

68. “My insides turn cold.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

75. “Learn to play the piano.’ Done!”

— Rachael Lippincott

76. “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

77. “I mean to, like, draw.”

— Rachael Lippincott

78. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

80. “Speak fluent French’ –.”

— Rachael Lippincott

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

88. “Jason and Hope.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

90. “Volunteer for an important political cause.”

— Rachael Lippincott

91. “He’s breathing for you.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

93. “For saying something real.”

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

98. “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

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

— Rachael Lippincott

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

— Rachael Lippincott