Top 40 Rachel Harrison Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I put my books on the shelves, arranging them alphabetically, only to change my mind and rearrange by color and then again by which books I think would be friends.”

— Rachel Harrison

2. “You can’t erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people.”

— Rachel Harrison

3. “My problems aren’t invalid. Not to me. Just because they aren’t life altering, life-threatening, doesn’t mean they don’t make me feel bad. I wake up with them every morning, carry them around all day like a lead backpack, and I fall asleep with them at night. They’re real, and they’re mine. I know I’m lucky. I know that. But it doesn’t change how I feel.”

— Rachel Harrison

4. “But friendships are mercurial. They’re shape-shifters. I’ve learned to allow them to fluctuate and take new forms. I love my friends; that’s all that matters.”

— Rachel Harrison

5. “There are many reasons why bad things happen to young women, and at the same time, no reason at all.”

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6. “Honestly, I don’t care what the future looks like, however wonderful or mediocre or disastrous. I just want it.”

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7. “If men aren’t teased, their egos get too big. We did society a favor.”

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8. “That’s what intimacy is, I think. That’s love. Knowing the smell of someone else’s head.”

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9. “Fear is for the weak of heart. Doubt is for the weak of mind.”

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10. “Is this how it happens? Is this how you make friends as an adult? You stumble upon someone wonderful, and all of a sudden, you’re close?”

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11. “When you’re sad, you cry. When you’re happy, you smile, you laugh. But what do you do when you’re angry? Not just mad, but filled with this ugly, consuming rage?”

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12. “It’s best not to be specific with wishes. Otherwise, you end up getting what you think you want instead of what.”

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13. “Don’t ghost me again,” he says. “I’m not a ghost,” I tell him as I leave. I add to myself, “I’m much scarier.”

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14. “Fate comes for you, no matter where you go.”

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15. “Let’s do this again soon.” “Yeah, I’ll call you.” “Pinkie swear?” I reach over and we link pinkies. “This is legally binding,” She says. “Oh, I know.” I hop out of the car and we blow each other kisses.”

— Rachel Harrison

16. “What is it about a woman in full control of herself that is so utterly frightening?”

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17. “I feel like if I say anything bad about my pregnancy, suddenly I’m Casey Anthony.” “That’s crazy,” I say. “You’re way prettier.”

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18. “I don’t hate you. I love you. And I forgive you.” She rolls up her window. “You don’t need to say anything. But you should know that I forgive you.” I’m not sure if it’s true. It feels true. It also feels transient. Like I want to add the caveat that I reserve the right to change my mind. “Thanks, baby,” Her reaction is mild, like I just offered her a mint.”

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19. “I wonder how many more times I’ll have to cut myself open for her to truly believe it.”

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20. “If you allow cracks to appear in glass, then you should not be surprised when it breaks and bloodies you.”

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21. “I don’t know how to go about finding them or if I even want to. Not sure it would accomplish anything. Doubt I could sue in monster court.”

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22. “I’d forgotten the difference between choosing not to participate and being excluded.”

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23. “No. I’ve never had the desire. I suppose it’s made me a pariah, especially in my youth. It was expected, and I shunned the expectation. They say things are better now, that society is more accepting if you don’t want to become a mother. I’m not sure if I find that to be true. Either you want babies or, if you don’t, you must want to eat them.”

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24. “I hug her. She puts her arms around me and pulls me in close. “Love you.” “Love you, too.” I hold her. I’ve wanted her to leave ever since she got here. But now that she’s leaving, I want her to stay. I don’t understand it. Our relationship is a hydra. It has too many heads.”

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25. “Memories have their purpose, and nostalgia is not a danger in small doses. It can be good to remember what has made us who we are, to reflect on what has made us stronger.”

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26. “Is this jealousy? It’s like heartburn, only a thousand times worse. No, thanks.”

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27. “Who was the werewolf?” she asks after a while. “What do you mean?” “Who bit you?” “Wish I knew,” I say. “Would quite like to have a word.”

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28. “I had to rely on memory alone, and that scared me, because memories go. Like everything else, they go.”

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29. “It was never a good sign when charismatic men started talking apocalypse.”

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30. “I wanted to walk into the water. I wanted to march straight into the ocean’s mouth and have it swallow me up.”

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31. “When you’re young, you’re oblivious to what is rare because you don’t have enough experience to identify.”

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32. “I found it interesting that those who believed themselves righteous only ever cared about those who agreed with them, and were keen to let those who didn’t suffer whatever brutal fate. There seemed to me an inherent hypocrisy in faith itself.”

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33. “And every time it happens, it’s like a sip of hot tea. It’s macaroni and cheese; it’s cozy slippers; it’s cashmere. It’s comfort.”

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34. “It isn’t fair that I have to live with this, but I have to live.”

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35. “Is it too much to ask never to have to make eye contact with any other living being ever again?”

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36. “The werewolf thing only enhances all the parts of me that were already broken and wrong. It’s trapped me with the worst of myself. It’s my reckoning.”

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37. “Hello?” I ask the lions, with immediate regret. What if they answer me?”

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38. “They’re so excited for one day in a pretty dress... someone should really tell them. They can wear a retty dress whenever they want... Women are out there tethering themselves to mediocre men just so they can wear a ball gown. It’s a shame.”

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39. “I embrace the next morning with all the enthusiasm of a goat entering Jurassic Park.”

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40. “It must be exhausting to be in your head,” Sam told me once. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him.”

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41. “I think it’s the same as any job,” I say. “Can be hard sometimes. But that’s why there’s wine.”

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42. “My eyes close, and it’s here. The transcendent knowledge that nothing can touch me. That I’m not in danger, because I am danger.”

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43. “I love my sister, but she doesn’t exactly have standards. She doesn’t like being single. She doesn’t like the chase. Doesn’t like flirting. She likes intimacy. She likes to love someone. Give her energy to them. To know someone and be known by them. She likes to share her life. Hold hands and cook and plan picnic dates and apple picking.”

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44. “He fears because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink down to his size, or anyone else’s, for their comfort, for their appeasement.”

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45. “Some people need conspiracies, finding the simple horror of the truth too brutal.”

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46. “What do you want from me? How would you react if I came to you and said I was a unicorn?” “You are a unicorn,” I say, petting her head.”

— Rachel Harrison