Top 40 Rachel Gibson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it’s too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I’ll turn around one day and you’ll be gone.”

— Rachel Gibson

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2. “I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don’t really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn’t. – Hope.”

— Rachel Gibson

3. “Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn’t define a person. It won’t tell you who I am.”

— Rachel Gibson

4. “The bigger the hair the closer to God” was not just a saying in the northern panhandle, it was like the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt have big hair.”

— Rachel Gibson

5. “The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”

— Rachel Gibson

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6. “Because sometimes in life Ken doesn’t always choose Barbie.”

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7. “Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it’s right where you started.”

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8. “I’m Nathan Parrish and you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve laid eyes on in my entire life. And at the risk of sounding like that crappy Partridge Family song, I think I love you.”

— Rachel Gibson

9. “You make me want to suck a bruise on you just to kiss it better. – Luc to Jane –.”

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10. “I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That’s what I want. I want to be someone’s forever.”

— Rachel Gibson

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11. “If you’re so innocent, how did I end up with my hand on your ass and your tongue in my mouth?”

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12. “I’m here because you’re here. When a man loves a woman, he wants to spend time with her. Even if that means he has to put on a suit and tie. He wants to hold her tight and smell her hair.”

— Rachel Gibson

13. “I’m more and more positive about this. So I don’t know anything about my husband or life. The point is, I’ve married a good-looking multi-millionaire who loves me and has a huge penthouse and brought me taupe roses. I’m not going to throw it all away just because of the small detail that I can’t remember him.”

— Rachel Gibson

14. “As a kid, he would have given just about anything to touch a naked Barbie, but he’d never been lucky enough to get within ogling distance. Now that he was afforded a good look at her, he discovered she had a scrawny ass and her knees made weird crunching sounds.”

— Rachel Gibson

15. “Chelsea, I knew when you showed up on my porch that you were going to be trouble. You were bossy and annoying and you brought sunshine into a very dark time in my life. You saved me when I didn’t even know I needed saving. I love you for that. I will always love you for that.” He raised her hand to his lips and kissed the backs of her knuckles. “Please say you’ll stay in my life and make trouble with me forever.” -Mark Bressler.”

— Rachel Gibson

16. “Give me some sugar.”

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17. “I write romance because I love to read romance.”

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18. “I think someone just marked his territory.”

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19. “I want to feel you up like we’re sixteen in the backseat of a car. On the outside of your clothes,” he said just above a whisper. “Touch you all over, then slide my hands up under your shirt.”

— Rachel Gibson

20. “She was an expert at running in five-inch heels and considered it an art form.”

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21. “Keep your pants up, gentlemen,” she said as she moved to stand in the middle of the half-naked players. “I’ll just take a moment of your time, and I’d prefer you not do your synchronized jock-dropping thing.”

— Rachel Gibson

22. “When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can’t get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.”

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23. “Men for the most part are a pain in the keister. Vibrators are a girl’s best friend.”

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24. “There were a few things she did know for sure, though. There was no way the pony was going back in the gate. Not when the pony was thirty-four and really liked pulling the milk cart.”

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25. “I finished ‘The Hunger Games’ trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.”

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26. “I’ve tried and I can’t. The thought of it twists me in a knot.”

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27. “The scariest thing about crazy people is that they can look so normal – Rob Sutter.”

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28. “He looked into her face and tossed her sweater on the floor. “I thank God you walked out of my memory and into my life.”

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29. “It was best not to ask too many questions. Especially since you’d get the answers. And the answers were usually followed by a tightening of Kate’s forehead and a tick in her left eye. The tightening could cause wrinkles, the tick a tumor, and Kate didn’t need to borrow that kind of trouble.”

— Rachel Gibson

30. “Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.”

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31. “I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you’re mine.”

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32. “I don’t want to let you go,” he said just above a whisper. “I’ve tried and I can’t. The thought of it twists me in a knot.”

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33. “If you’re disappointed, we could always make it true. No one else has to know. Jut you and me and cute beavers.”

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34. “She’d never set a fantasy in a ski lodge, but she was thinking about it now. She couldn’t help it. The man was throwing off pheromones like he was a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Sitting so close to ground zero, the fallout was lethal.”

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35. “Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.”

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36. “It’s easy to roam if you have an anchor. – Clive Hollowel.”

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37. “The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.”

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38. “My daddy told me that Parrish men are susceptible to love at first sight. We’re one-woman men and when we find our woman, we better never let her go or we’ll spend a lot of years kicking ourselves in the ass.”

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39. “I didn’t choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.”

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40. “One of the most difficult things he’d ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.”

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41. “The expectation was that ‘True Confessions’ would be my first published book, but that didn’t happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.”

— Rachel Gibson

42. “The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What’s in between is very hard work.”

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43. “I know. I know I’ve been a jerk, and I don’t have a good excuse. But touching you and loving you, and knowing you were planning to leave me, made me crazy. After we made love the second time, I began to think maybe you’d decide to stay with me. I started to think about you and me waking up every day together for the rest of our lives. I even thought about kids and taking some of those breathing classes when you got pregnant. Maybe buying one of those mini-vans.”

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44. “Exactly what am I supposed to care about? That we were just getting to the fun stuff? That my hand was on your breasts, and your hands were all over my chest, and both of us were having a good time? Damn right I care about that. I wasn’t finished. But don’t expect me to care that a little old lady looked in the window and watched. Why should I care what people are going to say about that? People have talked about me since the day I was born. I stopped caring a long time ago.”

— Rachel Gibson

45. “If that’s what you do to people you love, I can’t imagine what you have in store for people you hate.”

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46. “She wasn’t his kind of woman, and she didn’t want to fall in love with a man who would break her heart like a Dorito.”

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47. “He wrapped his arms around her waist and looked at her through those intense brown eyes she loved. “I wanted you when I thought you’d pull a bag over my head and snuff out my life. I wanted you more than I’ve wanted anything. I love you more than I’ve loved anyone. You burst into my life like sunshine and made me see how lonely I was. I don’t want to live that way anymore.” He pressed a kiss to her hairline. “I will love you with my last breath.”

— Rachel Gibson