Top 90 Rachel Lynn Solomon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Cool is the Kevin Jonas of compliments. It’s like saying your favorite color is beige.”

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52. “And sometimes the world is terrible, and love stories... They make it feel less heavy.”

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53. “He’s waiting on a bricked street with a rickety staircase that leads to the museum. His hair mussed, his posture slightly hunched. Why did I ever tease him about those freckles? I love them. I love every single one of them. I love his freckles and and his red hair and the too-short legs of his suit pants and the too-long sleeves, the way he laughs, the way he pushes up his glasses to rub his eyes.”

— Rachel Lynn Solomon

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

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

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56. “Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner for the word most likely to kill the romance. Congratulations, crusty.”

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57. “I just want to make sure-I don’t know. That you realized its me.”

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58. “Sometimes I feel like I’m playing at being an adult, like I’m constantly looking around, waiting for a real adult to tell me what to do if my garbage disposal starts making a weird sound or if I should be putting more money in my Roth IRA. I am just... I feel like a complete mess.”

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

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60. “And I wanted a hero who’d love her through her dark days, not despite them – because to me, that is the most romantic thing of all.”

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61. “I can barely commit to a skin-care regimen. I’m not sure how to commit to a major.”

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62. “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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63. “Sometimes I think parenting is a combination of doing things the opposite of how you were raised mixed with doing things exactly how you were raised and worrying that you’re becoming your parents.”

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64. “Wow’ is not an adjective.”

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65. “Neil is softer than I realized, and I’m a barbed-wire fence. Every time he gets too close, I make myself sharper.”

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66. “That swipe deserves its own romance novel.”

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67. “Time. That’s what I’ve been chasing all day, this notion that after tonight, after graduation, none of us will be in the same city again. The things that mattered to us for the past four years will shift and evolve, and I imagine they’ll keep doing that forever. It’s terrifying.”

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68. “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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69. “I am into classical music, in fact,” I say. “It’s been around for more than a thousand years, its composers have more name recognition than whatever ‘indie’ music you’re listening to right now, and symphonies sell out millions of performances a year. So go ahead, tell me classical music is tedious or boring or inferior.”

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

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

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72. “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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73. “It’s not until I lean back in the seat, waiting for my car to warm up, that the scent of his hoodie hits me. Its smells good, and I wonder if its detergent or just the natural scent of Neil, one I’ve never really paid attention to before. I guess I’ve never really been close enough to notice. I’m stunned by how much I don’t hate it, so much so that it makes me light-headed for a split second.”

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74. “But you go into parenting hoping, maybe selfishly, that your kid will love the thing you love, and you can share that with them.”

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75. “You and I have to always be the best, right? So we’ll be the best at long distance, if thats what we decide to do.”

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76. “He’s been bumping my hip the whole game, winking at me, gazing at my mouth. It’s the kind of attention I’ve always liked–people making it so obvious they’re into you that you don’t have to drive yourself wild with anxiety trying to decipher their feelings.”

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77. “All these years, we were fighting when we could have been... not fighting.”

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78. “I meant it when I told you before: I want every version of you.” A fingertip lands in the center of my lower lip. “I love every version of you.”

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79. “God bless my rigorous workout routine.”

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80. “Maybe this version of you would have been cool. But... you’re kind of great now, too.”

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81. “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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82. “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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83. “Short people are nothing if not skilled counter climbers.”

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84. “You don’t have to explain,′ I say, though all I want is a detailed explanation with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation.”

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85. “It’s easy to be inclusive, and yet most people just don’t care.”

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86. “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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87. “Yeah. Like every moment you’re with them, your head is spinning and you cant catch your breath and you just know that this person is changing your life for the better. Someone who challenges you to be better.”

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88. “You’re never too anything for books. We like what we like” -Rowan.”

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89. “Am I still ambitious if I’ve failed?”

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90. “Artoo. Hey. We’ll figure it out.”

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91. “He “figured himself out” in college, the way people always say they’re going to do.”

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92. “There are weeks and weeks of memories poured into that kiss, long nights and early mornings and road trips that never led us back to where we started. Arguments and truces and theories.”

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