Top 180 Rachel Hawkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Since when did David Stark have biceps? How did you get any muscle tone when all you did was type and be annoying?”

— Rachel Hawkins

102. “I would kill Mrs. Casnoff. I would blast that stupid hairdo right off her head, once I had my powers back.”

— Rachel Hawkins

103. “So why were you with her?” “She was my assignment.” “From The Eye?” “No, from the Boy Scouts. That Witch Dating badge just kept eluding me.” “Well, you must have at least three Total Douchebag badges by now, so that has to count for something.”

— Rachel Hawkins

104. “Jenna went to take my hand, but I stood up and gave her my best “Everything Is Fine, No, Really, It Is” smile.”

— Rachel Hawkins

105. “Aunt May, my sweet Aunt May, who taught me how to knit, who bought me a piece of candy every time we went to the store, jabbed a cocktail fork at my eye.”

— Rachel Hawkins

106. “Since Jenna had started swimming in the deep end of the pity pool, Archer was pretty much the only friend I had.”

— Rachel Hawkins

107. “I also like ladies. And not as in shopping buddies, but in the carnal sense.”

— Rachel Hawkins

108. “Scoot, scoot, SCOOT!” I yelled at David. “I AM SCOOTING!” he shouted back. Then.”

— Rachel Hawkins

109. “You would be too stubborn to die.”

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110. “You are my new hero. Seriously, I might actually be in love with you now. Would it be awkward if we made out?”

— Rachel Hawkins

111. “So this is the girl all the fuss is over,” he said, studying me. His voice was low, and I think he would’ve been hot if he weren’t radiating this air of “I Am Super Evil-No, Really-And Not In The Sexy Way.”

— Rachel Hawkins

112. “Aunt Jewel, I just told you that I have superpowers. That my current boyfriend is an Oracle, and my ex-boyfriend is more or less a wizard. And you want to do a little shopping? I’d hoped you wouldn’t freak out, don’t get me wrong, but I expected some freaking out.”

— Rachel Hawkins

113. “I usually feel pretty screamy when someone attacks my school.”

— Rachel Hawkins

114. “For a boy I’d once thought was made mostly of tweed, Miles can kiss.”

— Rachel Hawkins

115. “It’s going to be okay,” I told her, even though I was pretty sure we were all going to be skewered on L’Occhio silver daggers any minute now.”

— Rachel Hawkins

116. “I need a list of every den of iniquity in the city of Edinburgh,” I blurt out.”

— Rachel Hawkins

117. “Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they’re little ones.”

— Rachel Hawkins

118. “I clutched at his shoulders, raising up on my tiptoes, and kissed him with everything I had in me. As the kiss deepened, we held each other tighter, so I didn’t know if the pounding heartbeat I felt was mine or his.”

— Rachel Hawkins

119. “It’s always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won’t be so crazy.”

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120. “I noticed nearly everyone had a cup of Aunt Jewel’s punch. It was the weirdest thing to me how everyone openly acknowledged that it was terrible, but kept drinking it anyway. Manners in action, I guess.”

— Rachel Hawkins

121. “Did I rush in?” she asks, and I take a deep breath before shaking my head. “No. No, for the first time since I met you, I think you might have had perfect timing.”

— Rachel Hawkins

122. “I’ve been dodging men’s hands since I was twelve, so wishing a man would touch me is a novel experience.”

— Rachel Hawkins

123. “Leave Dad alone” I told Aislinn. “His Britishness is sort-circuiting.”

— Rachel Hawkins

124. “Or maybe they were staring at me as I tried to discreetly wipe sweat from between my breasts without appearing to get to second base with myself. Hard to say.”

— Rachel Hawkins

125. “One trauma at a time, please. – Bee.”

— Rachel Hawkins

126. “Superpowerful?’”He stood up, a gold chain dangling from his fingers. “Let me remind you of two words, Mercer: Bad. Dog.”

— Rachel Hawkins

127. “There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. – Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea.”

— Rachel Hawkins

128. “I had to get out of this before I was killed with some elaborate cutlery.”

— Rachel Hawkins

129. “When grief is still raw, drinking and drugs are a double-edged sword. They can numb you, make you feel the pain less, but they can also crack you wide open, leaving you vulnerable for a flood to come rushing back in when you least expect it.”

— Rachel Hawkins

130. “Gossip is currency in this neighborhood, and she’s clearly about to make it rain.”

— Rachel Hawkins

131. “Tripp is so many ugly things – a drunk, a lech, a Republican – but murderer still doesn’t fit on him. I’ve known violent men. I’ve been around too many of them, and I learned how to sniff them out early. I had to.”

— Rachel Hawkins

132. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.”

— Rachel Hawkins

133. “Cal’s fingers tightened on mine, and my heart thumped in response. The library felt very quiet and very still around us. “You’ll feel it.”

— Rachel Hawkins

134. “Guilt is a powerful weapon to have in your arsenal.”

— Rachel Hawkins

135. “And lastly, thanks to every woman who ever got to the end of Jane Eyre and thought, “Honestly, Jane? You could do better.” You are my people, and I love you.”

— Rachel Hawkins

136. “There will always be a before and an after, and you have to learn to live in the after.”

— Rachel Hawkins

137. “Mouths were good at lying, but eyes usually told the truth.”

— Rachel Hawkins

138. “People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs.”

— Rachel Hawkins

139. “I didn’t let myself think. I just leaned forward and pressed my lips to his.”

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140. “Scotland so far is that the unicorn is their national animal.”

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141. “We keep so many things in our brains,” she’d said. “More than men do. They’re allowed to only worry about business, while we have to worry about business and our families. Our children. I bet if I were to ask a male CEO, ‘How much milk do you have in your fridge right this second?’ he’d have no idea. But all of you know.”

— Rachel Hawkins

142. “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here.” – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

— Rachel Hawkins

143. “I can’t. I could stand it if you left me, but I don’t think there’s any way I could leave you.”

— Rachel Hawkins

144. “I’d never thought of aqua as a particular offensive color before, but looking at those bedspreads, I knew that next school year I was totally banning anything even approaching that shade from any school dance decorations. I’d never be able to look at it again without wanting to slit my own throat.”

— Rachel Hawkins

145. “I’d look back at that moment and wonder if I somehow knew what was going to happen. If everything in my life had been leading me to that one spot, to that one house. To him.”

— Rachel Hawkins

146. “I was looking for something new. I was. Because I was running from something old.”

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147. “My head felt heavy as I lifted it to look at my hand on his chest, just over his heart. And then the haze of desire clouding my brain gave way to a numbing wave of shock as I watched a tattoo – a black eye with a golden iris – appear under my fingers.”

— Rachel Hawkins

148. “Had I brought this here? This sordidness, this violence? Did it cling to me like some kind of virus, infecting anyone who got close to me?”

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149. “He is at his best when he has someone to reflect off of, someone to be someone for.”

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150. “Guilt is such a weird feeling, a combination of sad and sick that I was getting too used to feeling.”

— Rachel Hawkins