Top 60 Rachel Higginson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Not every story has a happy ending. Some only hold a happy beginning.”

— Rachel Higginson

2. “You were patient all this time. I had to find myself first; I had to remember who I was and become the person I was meant to be. You have been there for me patiently while I searched for you, even when I didn’t know I was looking for you, you were there.”

— Rachel Higginson

3. “You are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me, Lizzy.” His voice was broken and scratchy and a tear slid out from the corner of each of his eyes.”

— Rachel Higginson

4. “You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists except you. I love you.”

— Rachel Higginson

5. “I’m not blaming you,” he stated firmly. “I’m just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then... then there’s last night. And all of the other times like it. I have never been more alive than when I’m with you.”

— Rachel Higginson

6. “I think we’ve grown so far apart, we don’t even know each other anymore.”

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7. “You make me smile when I’ve had the worst day.”

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8. “One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free, I vowed.”

— Rachel Higginson

9. “That Friday morning, I stopped by Tractor Supply and picked up a twenty-five-pound salt block for $6.99. I made Wyatt take it over to him later that night. It had been as satisfying as I imagined it would be.”

— Rachel Higginson

10. “I think you forget that I’m still alive. It’s like you don’t expect me to keep on existing now that I’m not in your life every day.”

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11. “I love you more than I have loved anything or anyone. I am with you in this. I am with you forever.”

— Rachel Higginson

12. “Someone created all of this, all of the beauty of the earth, all of the fragility of human life and all of the extraordinary existence of us. Choosing to believe in a god only when you are surrounded by death and destruction is to truly not know God at all.”

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13. “I was like this never-ending charity case for him and he was my mega hot Good Samaritan.”

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14. “Somehow I had stopped worrying about how much we’d hurt each other in the past and started worrying about how much we would hurt without each other in the future.”

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15. “It’s too late for that. Ivy Pierce may be trouble, but she’s exactly the kind of trouble I’ve been looking for.”

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16. “This story is about me learning to live again after love left my life.”

— Rachel Higginson

17. “It’s okay to be sad, Mummy.” Lucy promised on a know-it-all whisper. “But don’t be sad all day. He only went on vacation. He wouldn’t leave us forever. He loves us too much.”

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18. “My mother was the person I loved most in this world. She was also the person that had messed me up the most.”

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19. “A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she’ll kill him in every other way.”

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20. “I could live for another minute or for the next eighty years and I would never stop loving him. He had become reason for my cluttered mind, hope for my hopeless spirit and the motive to keep my heart beating.”

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21. “You keep saying words like crazy and insane and risky, but Vera, the best things in life are all of those things. You can’t reap big rewards if you don’t take big risks.”

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22. “He was the opposite of my plans. He was the opposite of the kind of guy I thought I wanted. But he was everything I needed.”

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23. “True love, whether you live your life on the run or spend it in the same house where you raise your children, is never easy and it’s certainly never safe. It’s a risk we take believing the reward is greater than what we give up.”

— Rachel Higginson

24. “Why wasn’t the not-showered-ratty-pajama look in?”

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25. “We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else.”

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26. “Eternity is only forever with your love.”

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27. “I loved him. My prince. My soul mate.”

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28. “I think you’re pretty face on stage will help draw a bigger crowd.”

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29. “Our story was a complex piece of art that we worked on every day. It wasn’t always beautiful in the traditional sense, but it was captivating, and worthy and endless.”

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30. “Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.”

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31. “Suddenly living in the Zombie apocalypse didn’t feel like the seventh circle of hell It felt possible and full of potential.”

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32. “That’s when I decided I wouldn’t hope for anything ever again. Hope was for the weak. I had something much stronger now. I had regret. And I would let it direct every step I took forward.”

— Rachel Higginson

33. “I just stood their frozen, waiting for my opportunity to strike.”

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34. “I felt beautiful. He breathed that word into existence and there had never been a purer, more honest moment than right then.”

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35. “That’s my latest Yelp review,” he explained. “Posted by someone with the screen name Nanananabooboo.”

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36. “Part of me, a really bad, objectifying, and dirty part of me wanted to stand them up next to each other and make them pour water over their heads while I watched.”

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37. “I had never been out of the country before. And maybe this trip didn’t technically count because, well, America had officially imploded and I hadn’t needed a passport to cross the border, but I was more than a little disappointed we hadn’t run into a mariachi band yet. “Donde esta el Zombies?”

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38. “The minivan sounded like Sasquatch singing Ninety-Nine Bottles of beer on the wall after drinking ninety-nine bottles of beer- not pretty.”

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39. “I blamed this on Kelly Clarkson. On Kelly-Freaking-Clarkson. The angry man standing across the kitchen island looked like he was about to throttle me. I had visions of large hands gripped firmly around my neck shaking me like a rubber chicken. His eyes flashed with frustration and I cursed Kelly Clarkson straight to the grave.”

— Rachel Higginson

40. “He didn’t come into my life gradually or delicately. He swept in like a wildfire, consuming every single thought and word and thing until there was only him and me and it was like we were always supposed to be this way.”

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41. “These lives we lived were a gift and precious and so short. I wanted to spend my time authentically, surrounded by people I truly loved.”

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42. “If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life’s most valuable teacher.”

— Rachel Higginson

43. “He probably had a panda to sacrifice or children to terrorize.” Vera snorted. “A panda?” I shrugged. “He’s just that mean.” She.”

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44. “Be real, is salt holding you at gunpoint right now?”

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45. “Sometimes love didn’t make sense. And that was okay. It was far better to know love and accept love than try to understand it.”

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46. “He pushed me beyond being delicate, into a place I had never thought I would go again. He made me strong. He demanded that I be anything but weak and broken.”

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47. “Sometimes I get so sucked into the drama here, I can’t remember what’s real and what’s foreplay between two insane chefs.”

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48. “Every time he left, I shattered apart.”

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49. “There are no mistakes, Eden, just different outcomes to our flawed expectations,′ Gabriel recited with confidence.”

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50. “I can’t cook,” I confessed. “But I take my wine very seriously.”

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