Top 180 Rachel Hawkins Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

161. “I wasn’t from the South, but I’d lived here long enough to learn that flirting was like a second language with these people, or a casual hobby.”

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

166. “One thing growing up in the foster system taught me was to watch people’s eyes more than you listened to what they said. Mouths were good at lying, but eyes usually told the truth.”

— Rachel Hawkins

167. “What kind of person hate-reads their best friend’s books?”

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

169. “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

170. “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

171. “Plan some other charity function? Maybe a brunch to raise money for kids who don’t know how to yacht.”

— Rachel Hawkins

172. “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

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

— 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. “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

176. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

179. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

181. “I’ve never experienced that kind of intellectual chemistry with anyone else.”

— Rachel Hawkins

182. “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

183. “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

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

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185. “When you die in a hundred years, they’ll probably write on your gravestone, ‘Here Lies Harper Price – Damn It, She Still Had Stuff to Do!”

— Rachel Hawkins

186. “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