Top 180 Rachel Hawkins Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Rachel Hawkins

152. “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

153. “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.”

— Rachel Hawkins

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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

158. “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

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

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

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

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162. “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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163. “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

164. “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

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

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166. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

— Rachel Hawkins

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

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170. “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

171. “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.”

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172. “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

173. “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

174. “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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175. “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.”

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

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

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178. “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.”

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

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

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181. “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.”

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182. “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.”

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

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184. “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!”

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185. “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

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

— Rachel Hawkins