Top 90 Rachel Lynn Solomon Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Then I take a deep breath... and I let it all go.”

— Rachel Lynn Solomon

2. “If I kissed you again, it wouldn’t be for the show, or for research, or for any reason other than that I wanted to. I’d want to remember every detail. The way you taste. The way you smell. The sounds you’d make.”

— Rachel Lynn Solomon

3. “I could wake up on the same day a thousand times, and every single one would be different because of you. Every single one would be life-changing. Because of you.”

— Rachel Lynn Solomon

4. “From all the books I’ve read, I thought I understood the concept of love, but wow, I knew nothing.”

— Rachel Lynn Solomon

5. “I’m in love with you. You are the most interesting person I know, and I’ve never been able to talk to anyone the way I can talk to you. I’ve devoted the past four years to leaving Seattle, but you... You are the best thing about this city. You are going to be the hardest to leave. I love you so much.”

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6. “There’s this word in Japanese: tsundoku. It’s my favorite word in any language. It mean acquiring more books than you could ever realistically read. There’s not direct translation.” -Neil.”

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7. “We can’t keep meeting like this.”

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8. “When you’re in love, whether that love is platonic or romantic, you get to be the fullest version of yourself, uncertainties and mistakes and all.”

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9. “How do you tell the person you’ve spent four years trying to destroy that you have a crush on them?”

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10. “I want- I want to be a writer. And not in the sense that I’m writing and that, by definition, makes me a writer – it’s what I want to do with my life. And it feels... really lonely sometimes. Not the actual writing – of course that’s mostly solitary. But feeling like I can’t tell anyone, it almost makes me think it doesn’t really exist” -Rowan.”

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11. “I cross and uncross my legs so many times it must look like I’m doing Pilates at best and a seductive chair dance at worst.”

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12. “Will you finally sign my yearbook now?” he asks when we quiet down. “I have to have a Rowan Roth autograph for when you get famous.”

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13. “Love isn’t immediate or automatic; it takes effort and time and patience.” -Rowan.”

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14. “So often, I’m trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting.”

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15. “What would a mediocre white man do?” she asks.”

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16. “When he grins, it’s bright enough to light up the night sky. It’s kind of beautiful.”

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17. “Maybe the truth is that we’re each fighting our own battles, and even if she’s on my side she can’t always be with me on the front lines. I have to learn to do battle on my own.”

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18. “He thought I was an ally. A confidant. A partner in crime. He couldn’t have known that Barret Bloom has always worked alone.”

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19. “Did you know the world ‘clue’ comes from Greek Mythology? A clew, C-L-E-W, was a ball of yarn. Ariadne gave Theseus a clew to help him out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth. He unraveled it as he went so he could find his way back.”

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20. “If I have time, I can schedule a panic attack right before the cake cutting.”

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21. “If anything could confirm that weather isn’t small talk, it’s this. Weather connects us. A shared experience, even when we aren’t in the same place.”

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22. “But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known” -Rowan.”

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23. “He’s wearing Seattle’s official flag, a plaid flannel shirt.”

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24. “Make people cry, and then make them laugh,” my dad would say. “But most of all, make sure you’re telling a good story.”

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25. “Opposites attract is my favorite trope, so it made sense to start there. Because, of course, the thing about opposites: they always have a lot more in common than they think.”

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26. “I love words, and that’s what I want to do. There’s no better satisfaction than using precisely the right word in a conversation. I love the challenge of learning a new language, and I love discovering patterns. And I find it fascinating that words in other languages have crept into our vocabulary. ‘Cul-de-sac,’ ‘aficionado,’ tattoo...”

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27. “My problems are not in the same country as hers and Ima’s. They’re not on the same map. Does that make them less valid?”

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28. “Maybe it’s the whole concept of a guilty pleasure,” Neil says gently. “Why should we feel guilty about something that brings us – pleasure?”

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29. “I tug his hoodie closer. We’re not soaking wet anymore, just a little damp. Now that we’re outside again, I’m convinced the smell of his hoodie had to be the rain. I’m not still thinking about it, but if I were, its just... petrichor.”

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30. “It’s impossible to get a hosting gig without experience, but you can’t get that experience unless you already have some experience under your belt. The joys of job hunting as a millennial.”

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31. “People say they want something serious, but as soon as it starts heading that way, they bolt. Either they’re lying or they realise they don’t want something serious with me.”

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32. “Cool is the Kevin Jonas of compliments. It’s like saying your favorite color is beige.”

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33. “Sometimes I wonder if content is really just a synonym for complacent.”

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34. “I’m a solid second, but I’m no one’s first.”

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35. “I am fine. I am great. I am the coolest of cucumbers. I have taken the chillest of pills.”

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36. “Every time I imagined adulthood, it looked different from this reality.”

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37. “I let it sink in, trying to be okay with that uncertainty. As much as I’ve idealized the happily-ever-after, I can’t deny that he’s right. Today isn’t my epilogue with Neil-it’s a beginning. I’ll leave the happily-ever-afters in the books.”

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38. “I’m a barbed-wire fence. Every time he gets too close, I make myself sharper.”

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39. “But maybe that’s what we all are – halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges.”

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40. “I used to think that without my dad, I’d never be whole again. But maybe that’s what we all are – halfway-broken people searching for things that will smooth our jagged edges.”

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41. “My anxiety-brain is never content to stress over one thing when it could be stressing over five.”

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42. “Breaking News: Texas is hot. Texas in June deserves its own circle of hell.”

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43. “You know better. You’re so mature.′ Now I’m wondering if maybe those compliments took something away from me. Not anything dramatic, like my entire childhood, but the ability to try things out. To fail.”

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44. “Eventually, you deal with something for long enough that it becomes such an intrinsic part of you, and you can’t imagine yourself without it. You accept it, maybe because you think you deserve it but also because you’re scared that if you tried to change it, it wouldn’t work. It feels easier to live in that somber place because you don’t know who you are otherwise, and you’re worried about putting in all that effort without a guaranteed outcome.”

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45. “That voice. It’s a time machine of familiar longing, tugging me back.”

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46. “But after a while, you grow weary of beautiful.”

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47. “Talking about him was hard, but not talking was worse. So often, I’m trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting.”

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48. “I didn’t want to go off the rails, but I wanted to get close enough to see what was on the other side of them.”

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49. “Crush’ is too weak a word to describe how I feel. It doesn’t do you justice, but maybe it works for me. I am the one who is crushed. I’m crushed that we have only ever regarded each other as enemies. I’m crushed when the day ends and I haven’t said anything to you that isn’t cloaked in five layers of sarcasm.”

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50. “Rowan,” says the girl, and the guy whose mother just got married introduces himself as Neil. I’m not sure how long he and Rowan have been together, but they can’t seem to stop touching each other.”

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