Top 200 Rachel Van Dyken Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Cuts heal, bruises fade – but broken hearts? They carry scars for a lifetime.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

52. “I truly believed that the greatest sacrifice someone could make in life was putting someone else’s needs before your own wants and desires. Loving someone with such a passion that you’d suffer the rest of your life just so you could see them smile. You’d go to hell and back – if only it meant keeping them safe. -Nixon.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

53. “Because one day, he’s going to regret walking away from you. And I want to be there when it’s too late – when you’re in my arms, my bed instead.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

54. “I’m going to make it so hard for you to forget this first kiss that you don’t want anyone else kissing you ever again.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

55. “She looked lost. Not the type of lost you see on people when they’re in a new city; the type of lost you see on a little kid when she thinks her parents left her at the store.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

56. “What you two have – it’s a once in a lifetime – you fight for him, sweetheart. Fight for him with every last breath. No regrets, okay?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

57. “Love isn’t the expectation that eventually you’ll end up in heartache; it’s the expectation that you can fully trust another human being with everything and still hope for a happy ending.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

58. “If you need to cry, I’ll hold you until you’re done. Sometimes the only way to get over things is to walk through them, but that doesn’t mean you have to do it on your own.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

59. “I think... That I’ve always been yours. I just didn’t realize it.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

60. “You give me moments, moments where I don’t remember I’m sick, moments where only we exist. They’re like tiny presents sprinkled throughout my life.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

61. “Hell, my parents forgot my birthday, yet threw a freaking party for the family Chihuahua.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

62. “Maybe the world isn’t as shiny and fun as you once thought. People are mean. Humanity is a cruel joke, Trace.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

63. “He tasted like cinnamon – too bad I was allergic to cinnamon. Good thing I didn’t go into anaphylactic shock from the kiss. That would have been awkward.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

64. “Love shouldn’t be something you jump into because it’s the right time in your life or because your friends are all married. It should be something that happens naturally, and in the end it turns into the supernatural because suddenly, you can’t imagine waking up every day without that other half. You no longer want to be an individual but a team.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

65. “How many times can a girl face rejection before the only way to find comfort is to close herself off from the very world that rejected her in the first place?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

66. “Just because you need help to cope doesn’t make you any less strong. The truly weak people in this life are the ones who can’t admit they need help. They’re the ones who can’t admit that they can no longer go at it alone. Those are the people who are weak. By asking for help, by taking help, you’ve just admitted your weakness and in that, you find your strength. The weak of the world are those who think they’ve got it all figured out and flaunt it to others.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

67. “Love is never a sure thing, man. You’re never going to be totally certain that the person you offer your heart to will accept it with open hands, but if you don’t take that risk you’ll never reap the benefits of what it has to offer.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

68. “Life has two stages. Birth and death. That’s it. What you do in between the two? Well, that’s up to you, isn’t it?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

69. “And you run five point six miles every day at three in the afternoon, yet you hate running. We all do what we gotta do to get what we want. You want a nice body? You work for it.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

70. “Don’t you understand? The depth of what I feel for you? I’m not just crazy for you, I’m out of my mind, out of my depth, love. You are my life – to leave you would be like leaving a part of myself.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

71. “I tasted blood in my mouth. Maybe I’d bitten my tongue. Maybe my heart had broken, and that was what happened when hearts broke inside the body. They bled from the inside out.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

72. “You may be my new princess. But your mama is my queen.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

73. “Why was I the lucky one getting haunted by the gangster of Christmas past?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

74. “There were no words in the English language to describe how much life it sucked out of a person – how it still hurt, years later, how you still heard that person’s voice and woke up running into the kitchen only to realize that they weren’t ever coming back.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

75. “I ignored the dark circles under her eyes, just like I ignored the clenching in my stomach that she was starting to bruise more around her hands.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

76. “I’d refused to feel because I’d refused to go down without a fight. I was going to finish what the De Langes started, and they were all going to die.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

77. “I believe in you,” she blurted, tears in her eyes. “I just... I want you to know that despite everything... I believe in you.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

78. “Everyone wears masks. They come in all different shapes and sizes. The only problem with trying one on – is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we don’t have to be who we really are. How easily we convince ourselves that we need to cover up what we were born to be. It’s a tragedy – that fear keeps us from our destiny. It’s hell – when the person you were created to be – is covered up by some cheap imposter.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

79. “I eat, I think of you. I drink, I drink to you. I cry, so you don’t have to. I’d die, for you to live. And I’d survive with a broken heart only if it meant mending yours.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

80. “I prayed over and over again that God would spare me, not because I cared that much about my own life – but because I cared about hers.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

81. “I would have kissed you harder. I would have fought for you more. I don’t know. I would have stolen you away, taken your virtue, made myself so permanently etched on your person that every time you took a breath it was my scent that was permeating the air.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

82. “To me, time was the most valuable thing we had as humans. I wanted to make the most of every moment.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

83. “Without asking for permission, I tugged her hair out of the rubber band and ran it through my finger, savoring the silky feel. “It’s perfect. Men are suckers for long hair. I think it goes back to the early days when cavemen would grab women by the hair and tug them back to their hay beds and make sweet love to them.” “That’s” -Blake shook her head- “probably one of the most offensive things I’ve ever heard.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

84. “If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

85. “Her last request was that you’d know she was innocent. She says in her death she hopes she can prove her loyalty has always, unequivocally been yours.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

86. “And that’s how life is measured – not by the length, but by the strength of those moments spent together.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

87. “You’re the sunset.” “Oh.” “Because I can’t describe your beauty – and every day I see you, it’s like seeing a new sunset, you’re never the same. I always notice something different about the way the light reflects off your eyes. Or the way your hair feels when I run my fingers through it. You’re not just pretty. You’re indescribable. You’re terrifying in your beauty – and I. Love. You.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

88. “Who quite possibly could end up being the right one. Because no matter how damaged your heart may be, it never loses its ability to choose again, to try again, to want love even after loss.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

89. “Wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, alive or dead, young or old, my heart will always be with yours. Every beat you feel against your fingertips... ” His fingers tapped against my chest, once, twice. “... is me calling out to you. It’s you returning the call. It’s us talking, communicating, bonding, sharing, Living – Kiersten, it’s us living.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

90. “Jason closed his eye and winced. “Why is this weekend not ending?” “Because the universe hates you, and you agreed to marry a bloodsucking wannabe Real Housewife of New York, who would have used her nails as a way to kill you so we’d all end up on Dateline – crying.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

91. “Love is magic. And you, my dear, are so in love; why, it shows in your every action, in your every breath.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

92. “I knew I wanted you. I knew I wanted to marry you. I knew I wanted to spend my life watching that smile, gazing into those eyes.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

93. “When you have lost your way, when the world appears as if it is crumbling around you, perhaps, just maybe, you should close your eyes. By looking outward we forget the strength that is given inward. We can only see part of the picture with our eyes open. But, when they are closed, we see as a whole. We concentrate not on what we can see, but on the faith of what we know to be true.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

94. “Never ask a ninja if she can jump – it’s degrading.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

95. “It’s in the fight that you prove your worth.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

96. “It wasn’t that it had been too long without a girl. It was that it’d been a lifetime without the right one.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

97. “I know you guys have a past. But can you leavve it there? So I can be your future?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

98. “That’s stupid.” I laughed into his chest. “Boys can’t save girls.” “You’re right.” He kissed my temple. “It’s the other way around.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

99. “Pain. Pain makes life beautiful, because if we never had pain, we’d never be forced to grow.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

100. “Good things happen in prison,’ said no one ever. Word to the wise, if you want to prove your manhood to your woman, just pull it out and show her, feel me?”

— Rachel Van Dyken