Top 200 Rachel Van Dyken Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t let pain keep you from moving forward. It shouldn’t stop your progress – it should drive it.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

2. “Do it afraid.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

3. “Don’t try to be good at everything, don’t spread yourself so thin that you accomplish nothing; rather, pick a few things and do them well. Excel in those areas and you’ll excel in life.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

4. “Living is hard – dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What’s so difficult about that? Nothing really – except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

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5. “Life isn’t fair, but living? Living is heaven. Living is a gift. Every gift is different – every path is different – for some reason this is ours, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can stop crying and start living.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

6. “Your voice is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

7. “I was pretty sure that’s how you know you’re falling for someone – when you want the good and bad, when you want everything, regardless of how horrible, how dark. You want it all, because at the end of the day, it’s still them.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

8. “Just know. I love you. With every fiber of my being.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

9. “Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. – Russian.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

10. “How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we’re going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that’s our sign to keep going.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

11. “The other thing about moments that are given to us? They’re limited. We don’t get an endless amount. If you miss them, they’re gone. Time machines don’t exist; you can’t go back and fix what’s been broken.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

12. “Belief in something that has not yet come to pass, belief that regardless of the circumstances, we can still expect the best possible outcome in life.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

13. “In death you find your freedom, but it is life where you are truly free.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

14. “Nobody puts baby in a corner. Nobody.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

15. “I’m going to fight for her. I’m going to fight every damn day I have breath in my body, and if I die trying than at least I died loving someone with every part of my soul.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

16. “Just don’t give him your everything – not until you know the return will be the same.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

17. “An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue – Russian Proverb.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

18. “You don’t know my pain. You don’t know my story. You don’t know the hope I’ve held in my heart for years. Hope that one day I would be different. Hope that one day the person I chose to give my heart to would see me as beautiful, pure, like the snow. And wouldn’t look at the darkness and walk in the other direction.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

19. “I won’t let anything happen to you – I swear on my life, I’ll protect you until the day I die.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

20. “Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but paralyzed. You want to yell at them, scream, help them, but your body won’t move, and you know that no matter how hard you try, in the end, the path is theirs to choose, you can’t choose for them. What a terrifying concept, especially considering we hardly see every option when we’re stuck in our own self-defeat.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

21. “Funny, when you’ve hit rock bottom, you never imagine someone may throw you a rope.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

22. “Death answers before it is asked. – Russian Proverb.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

23. “Rule one: Make them curious, slightly jealous. Rule two: Don’t appear too interested. Always be polite. Rule three: Give them a method of contact, but keep the ball in your court. Rule four: Never answer the first text, call, e-mail, etc. For some reason, the brain picks up on the number three as being the final try before you look desperate.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

24. “Right. I’m fine, you’re fine, everything’s fine. Oh, look, I think a rainbow’s sprouting out of your ass.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

25. “Well played, Isla, well played.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

26. “Life is over in a blink of an eye – so why waste your time being anything but happy that you’ve been given another day to live?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

27. “As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

28. “When love finds you, true love, it doesn’t give you the chance to say no, and you realize that you would rather suffer the rest of your life with your decisions than suffer without it.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

29. “You are everything that’s beautiful and pure in this world, and you deserve so much better than this life, than what any of us have to offer. Than what I have to offer.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

30. “But, sometimes in life, things don’t end how we want them to. Sometimes, what we want to happen and what has to happen are two very different things.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

31. “My world shattered that day. I lost my best friend. I lost my heart. My shield. My soul. And buried it right along with his body. The boy who hadn’t been who he said he was – the boy who’d protected me from my own family. The boy who took two bullets for me and paid with his life. Bang, Bang was the new soundtrack to my life. Welcome to the Mafia.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

32. “Live your life as if each moment is your last. This isn’t about going crazy. It’s about appreciation.”

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33. “Fear is a tool not a weakness.”

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34. “I’d rather fight with you, bicker with you, every damn day of my life than having nothing at all. I’m selfish enough to want any piece of you – even if it’s the bad, the ugly, the ridiculous. So even if you hated me, I’d still die a happy man – because I’d still be on your mind.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

35. “Demetri: I won’t abandon you. I’m sure as hell not going to listen to you, and you can damn well know that I’m going to fight for you.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

36. “I think if you love someone, you shouldn’t care about her appearance at all. Loving someone because of her physical attribute isn’t love. It’s either lust or crush.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

37. “You look beautiful,” I said honestly. “Scary beautiful. The type of beautiful that guys are afraid to touch. The type of beautiful that makes men want to risk everything for one taste, one touch, one night. Mix that with your brains, and you’re the epitome of why men fight wars.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

38. “Love is just like magic. It takes special care to discover, but once you have it in the palm of your hand, it spreads throughout your heart and soul. When you find love, you have to hold on to it. You have to promise to never let it go.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

39. “Dying without really living. Leaving this world knowing that the girl who makes me want to live the most-will have to do it without me.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

40. “She’d eat with us. She’d want for nothing. It was the least I could do after what I was about to make her endure.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

41. “I hurt all the damn time because my stupid heart has decided for one reason or another that it can’t survive without being next to yours. -Chase.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

42. “Our story wasn’t beautiful. It was filled with obliterating pain. But the thing with life is this: pain doesn’t last forever. There will always be a gentle breeze to soothe away the sting, and you may just find that you’re a little bit stronger than before, a little braver, and a lot more willing to live life as it should be lived. Fearlessly.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

43. “Living? That will always be the hardest thing you will ever do. It hurts like hell, it’s full of bumps down every road, and you’ll take wrong turns, but it’s a blessing to have the chance to fail in the first place, am I right?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

44. “How I spend my time is my right – but in the end, it still affects those I don’t leave time for. There’s a yin and yang in life. But people seriously don’t ever realize it until it’s too late.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

45. “He kissed her like he was going off to war. And she kissed him back like it was true.”

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46. “Because you wear your intelligence, it’s part of your beauty. You can’t separate the two. I admire both. I’m attracted to both.”

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47. “I am not your sexless friend. I’m not your damn brother. I’m not your gay friend. And I sure as hell not am not thinking about anything right now except that your hands feel really good against my skin. So I’m going to kiss you, and you’re going to respond like the idea of my mouth on yours doesn’t make you want to cry – and you’ll like it.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

48. “I’d keep you if you weren’t already being fought over and owned.” “I’m not a pet.” “Believe me when I say I treat my pets very well,” he said in a low voice. “No complaints. Ever.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

49. “Cuts heal, bruises fade – but broken hearts? They carry scars for a lifetime.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

50. “Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy. I needed the distance, I needed to think the worst because for some reason his every action drew me.”

— Rachel Van Dyken