Top 200 Rachel Hawkins Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I was looking for something new. I was. Because I was running from something old.”

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

153. “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.”

— Rachel Hawkins

154. “Ruined her life, though. Made her think she was somebody when really she was just a part of a somebody’s story.”

— Rachel Hawkins

155. “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.”

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

157. “I stepped back. “Anyway, I should go. See ya, Cross.” Then I laughed, only it sounded suspiciously like another sob. “Except I won’t, will I? So I guess I should say goodbye.”

— Rachel Hawkins

158. “Part of a somebody’s story. It’s a twisty turn of phrase, one I immediately like, and I tell myself to remember it later.”

— Rachel Hawkins

159. “I hope you never have to watch the one person you love most in the world, the person who loves you just as fiercely in return, lose that love, day by day, bit by bit, a steady draining away until there’s nothing left. Until they’re just a person who sleeps inches from you at night, and eats meals across a table from you, and reads books at your side, even smiles at you or laughs with you, but whose heart has shut you out forever.”

— Rachel Hawkins

160. “I’ll miss you forever, Mari,” Lara says. “But I’m not giving you absolution. We don’t deserve it.”

— Rachel Hawkins

161. “Tripp is so many ugly things – a drunk, a lech, a Republican – but murderer still doesn’t fit on him.”

— Rachel Hawkins

162. “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

163. “You had an ancestor who did those things once, and he made so much money that now that money makes money. I suppose this is why some countries eventually round up people like us and cut our heads off.”

— Rachel Hawkins

164. “Being confronted with one’s worst nightmares is both a way of testing your mental fortitude and seeing where your heart lies.”

— Rachel Hawkins

165. “Dimly, some part of my brain registered that I should stop being so surprised when magic stuff sucked way harder than I thought it was going to.”

— Rachel Hawkins

166. “Sometimes she hates that past version of herself so much she wants to crawl out of her own skin.”

— Rachel Hawkins

167. “No one can be judged for the books they buy in airports.”

— Rachel Hawkins

168. “A haunted house where the ghosts hadn’t had the courtesy to die yet.”

— Rachel Hawkins

169. “An understudy with no role to play.”

— Rachel Hawkins

170. “Solo para nosostros lo normal seria raro.”

— Rachel Hawkins

171. “I don’t tell him that it’s not even my real name, but the name of a dead girl I knew in a dead life. My real name is equally boring, but it’s one he might hear more often than Jane.”

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

173. “I didn’t know that for some people, alcohol is the key to a cage inside of them, and inside that cage is a monster.”

— Rachel Hawkins

174. “I’ve gone so long trying not to be seen that there’s something intoxicating about letting him really see me.”

— Rachel Hawkins

175. “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

176. “There should be some kind of warning when your life is about to change forever.”

— Rachel Hawkins

177. “Just a child stolen from poor parents to replace the one the rich parents had been too careless with.”

— Rachel Hawkins

178. “The truth isn’t some finite thing, it’s what we all choose to believe.”

— Rachel Hawkins

179. “Her smile was beautiful and terrible. Her eyes glowed as bright as a furnace.”

— Rachel Hawkins

180. “Houses remember.”

— Rachel Hawkins

181. “If you want to receive the good things the universe has for you, Em, you can’t have ugly thoughts blocking the path. We have to let go of pain and resentment if we want the gifts we deserve.”

— Rachel Hawkins

182. “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

183. “You want to stick your head in the sand, and make this all go away. But the thing is, it’s not going to. The sand doesn’t FIX the problem, it just HIDES it.”

— Rachel Hawkins

184. “She had forgotten, as we all do, that beautiful things can contain their own darkness. – Lilith Rising, Mari Godwick, 1976.”

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

186. “Dreams were for people with money and time, people who didn’t feel hollowed out from watching the only person who loved them die in agony. Dreams were for people who had choices, opportunities. I didn’t believe I had any of those things.”

— Rachel Hawkins

187. “Knowing that about you, imagining all that you must have gone through... It doesn’t make me want you less. It makes me want you more.”

— Rachel Hawkins

188. “One rarely finds salvation in Florida.”

— Rachel Hawkins

189. “So I have a destiny, I said. “Crap.”

— Rachel Hawkins

190. “I am sorry, for whatever it’s worth... I was trying to do the right thing. – Blythe.”

— Rachel Hawkins

191. “Stories change depending on who’s telling them.”

— Rachel Hawkins

192. “Later, this is a memory that will break her heart a thousand times over.”

— Rachel Hawkins

193. “Are you cringing now, darling? Are you bracing yourself for an old woman to delve into purple prose as she details her sexual awakening? Are your eyes already darting ahead, praying to god you don’t see words like “petals” or “engorged”? Never fear. A lady does not kiss and tell.”

— Rachel Hawkins

194. “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

195. “But after the pain, there’s a kind of peace. It’s over now. All of it. She slips under. She doesn’t come back up.”

— Rachel Hawkins

196. “A terrible thing, wanting someone and hating them all at the same time.”

— Rachel Hawkins

197. “But as I stood across from Archer, I couldn’t forget that I was completely, stupidly in love with the one person I could never have.”

— Rachel Hawkins

198. “And in moments like this, when it’s just the two of them in their perfect cocoon, she doesn’t regret any of it.”

— Rachel Hawkins

199. “But I actually like the heat early in the morning, before the humidity sets in, the grass still wet and jewel-green as the sun climbs over the horizon. It feels good, the sweat running down my back, stinging my eyes behind my sunglasses.”

— Rachel Hawkins

200. “She’s inevitable.”

— Rachel Hawkins