Top 180 Rachel Hawkins Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “For the past six months, I’d gotten so good at telling myself that I could handle everything, that the worst would never happen. It seemed like I’d been wrong every time.”

— Rachel Hawkins

102. “I did want to spend the ball with you.”

— Rachel Hawkins

103. “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

104. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

106. “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.”

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107. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

109. “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

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

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

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

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

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114. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

118. “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

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

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

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121. “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

122. “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

123. “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.”

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

— Rachel Hawkins

125. “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.”

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

131. “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.”

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132. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

134. “It’s no fun to spill gossip if the recipient seems bored, so that’s why I keep my face completely neutral, no more interest than if we were talking about the weather.”

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

— Rachel Hawkins

136. “Sometimes we don’t really know we’ve won until we see the reflection of that win in the loser’s eyes.”

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137. “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

138. “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.”

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139. “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.”

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

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141. “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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142. “The truth is, when your world is falling apart, you stop having “a thing.” You get so focused on just making it though each day that “interests” or “ambitions ” kind of go out the window. You definitely don’t have time for passions.”

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143. “Funny how fast that happened, how easy it was for people I saw every day to fade away, disappear, become nothing more than a bunch of Instagram accounts I still followed.”

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

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145. “Because I think I still love him. In spite of it all.”

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146. “A sort of madness sets in when one is away from society for too long, when one looks out to the horizon and sees only sea and sky.”

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147. “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

148. “Dreams were for people who had choices, opportunities. I didn’t believe I had any of those things.”

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149. “In friendships or relationships, usually one person is the cat – guarded, a little standoffish – someone where you have to work for it. And then the other person is the golden retriever. Loves immediately and completely.”

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150. “It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you’ve accepted that someone is out of your life, that you’ve grieved and it’s over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you’ve lost that person all over again.”

— Rachel Hawkins