Top 200 Rachel Van Dyken Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “God, I’d go through hell if she’d just glare at me like that every second of every day.”

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202. “That was going to be my new curse word. Oh my Thor. Holy Thor. Good Thor! Yeah, I could get a lot of use out of that one.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

203. “Goodbye – whoever invented that word should burn in Hell.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

204. “My body is giving up. But my soul is a fighter, so when I leave this earth, I want you to remember that even though my body’s broken, gone, dust, my soul’s free.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

205. “My heart for yours.”

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206. “And then, the devil himself appeared at the door, sans shirt to cover his ridiculously cut body. Lucas smirked. “Morning. Was it as good for you as it was for me?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

207. “Great. Note to self. Listen to the godfather.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

208. “A dirty text a day keeps the doc away.” “You sure you’re a virgin?” “I’m a virgin, not a priest.” He rolled his eyes then went to the pantry to grab a few more marshmallows.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

209. “Sometimes a person does what he has to do, to protect those he values the most.”

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210. “Don’t ruin it by saying something. Now. Go to class.”

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211. “Ma’am, what does Justin Timberlake have to do with anything?” “Justin Timberlake is the answer to everything,” Grandma said solemnly. “How do you figure?” After a long pause she answered, “Because he brought sexy back.” “I’m sorry I didn’t take a sick day today.”

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212. “It was no longer cancer. But the clock.”

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213. “I want to be your first and your last. I want to be your everything. But I’m willing to wait until you’re ready for this. For this feeling. I want you to memorize it. Memorize life, Alyssa. Because that’s what I want for us. I want for us to.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

214. “She was out the door maybe five feet before she turned around one last time. They always did. They always would. I waved. She flipped me off. She might as well have kissed me.”

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215. “She has a name,” I teased. Not that I actually remembered it. But in my defense, while her lips were wrapped around me, her head was blocking the view of her name tag. See? Not my fault.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

216. “Did you just compare your sexual prowess to Chuck Norris’s karate skills?” I asked. “Same thing.” Gabe shrugged. Shaking.”

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217. “We do not care what we have, but we cry when it is lost. –Russian Proverb.”

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218. “I finally understand what love is. It isn’t rainbows and butterflies. It isn’t always pretty. Sometimes it’s jagged like broken glass, and sometimes it hurts. But love, the type of love that’s real – the love Demetri has shown me – it’s selfless, it’s persistent. Real love pushes your boundaries, it pulls until you snap, and then when you think you can’t take anymore, it’s.”

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219. “Amazing how death sneaks up on a person, how it changes even the shell of the body, making the person unrecognizable, maybe it’s the fact that the soul’s finally releasing its tendrils around the human heart, maybe it’s the soul that gives up first and realizes that this was never the plan, to live with sickness – but to live free from it.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

220. “Olivia couldn’t keep her eyes off Colin. All I wanted to do was throw myself around him and shout at her, “Yeah, that’s right! This ones taken. You even sneak to him, I’ll break your nose!”

— Rachel Van Dyken

221. “Life is scary as hell, but I’d rather believe you were spared for a reason, maybe so that on your eighteenth birthday you could make a stupid, spoiled, Hollywood actor give up his heart and fall in love.”

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222. “When you’re the one who causes the pain, you do everything in your power to make it better.”

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223. “Honey, a father never wants to outlive his kids. This” – he took a deep breath – “is the easy part. 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?”

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224. “It’s a pipe dream, one I will never follow, but that’s the thing about dreams. Even if we don’t accomplish them, they still exist, floating around in our psyche reminding us that there are things we need to do before we leave this earth, and making us feel resentful that we’ll probably never be able to do them.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

225. “All our lives we’re told that ugly, deformed, is bad – but it’s a lie. Sometimes the most terrifying things you will ever encounter are also the most beautiful.”

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226. “And said something that I’d been dying to hear for the past six years since my mom’s death. “She would be so proud of you.”

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227. “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.”

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228. “Maybe Nixon knew that my one personality flaw was that I loved too much. Loved too hard. I didn’t know how to go in halfway. So when I saw something I wanted, I dove head first with my heart and left my brain behind.”

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229. “It was like finding someone and immediately having inside jokes, reading their mind and knowing their thoughts without even trying.”

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230. “You do not catch villains by chasing them.” Andrei tapped his temple with his fingertip. “You catch them by standing still. By waiting.”

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231. “I was once told that when the brain conjures up memories, physically and mentally it’s like reliving what happened.”

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232. “Which is almost worse. Because at least when you’re sad you can mourn. Sadness you can battle. But anger? Anger we just justify until we’re miserable as hell.”

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233. “Lincoln Greene didn’t look at me like a puzzle that needed to be solved in order for us to be friends. He didn’t try to fix the pieces. He simply accepted them for what they were. Screwed up. It was as if he saw the fear, hurt, anger – the ugly – and accepted me anyway.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

234. “I took a deep breath and counted to seven so I wouldn’t rip his head off. Seven was a safe number, three wasn’t long enough, and ten just made people think you were senile and having a mild stroke.”

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235. “I’d always been told that if you feed something it grows.”

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236. “Will you please move into my apartment and share this amazingly comfortable ten-thousand-dollar bed with me?”

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237. “I choose you, I just need you to choose me back.”

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238. “Hell, I was her demon. And now I was wiping her tears and holding her close. I was no saint. I was the darkness that chased her. I was what haunted her dreams, I was her nightmare, and yet she held me like I was the knight that had ridden in on my white horse – she was right about one thing – the horse was white, but the knight was no servant to the king – he was fallen, and she’d singlehandedly resurrected him, not realizing something was very wrong.”

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239. “Healing was more than just being cured of cancer or finding the one who actually saw you for you. It was more than getting over your past, embracing your future. Healing’s waking up every day when you’d rather stay in bed; healing’s when you smile instead of cry; healing’s when you can hold your head high, despite what demons try to pull it down. And life was full of it, full of opportunities to cut and run, rather than stay put and face the storm. They never.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

240. “Forgive me – ” I whispered into the cool night air “ – for showing you the knight, when the whole time, I was the wolf. Forgive me, God. Forgive me. Amen.”

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241. “You realize that when I asked you to move in with me, it’s with full knowledge that together we’re going to figure out how to get your dad the best care he needs, right?”

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242. “Trace,” I licked my lips and sighed, “To me. You’re everything. I’d protect you until my dying day because I can’t imagine living in a world where your smile didn’t exist.”

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243. “Can I think about it?” “Sure.” I nodded. “You have two minutes. Also, did you miss the part where I said sunset? True love?”

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