Top 200 Rachel Van Dyken Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “To just be you and not have to worry about anything else in the world.”

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202. “Remember? I’m the one who keeps you safe. I’m the one that would die for you and all that? why, want me to prove my loyalty?”

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203. “I thought I was okay with dying. Until I met her.”

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204. “God, I’d go through hell if she’d just glare at me like that every second of every day.”

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205. “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

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

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

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208. “My heart for yours.”

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209. “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?”

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

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211. “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.”

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

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213. “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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214. “It was no longer cancer. But the clock.”

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

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216. “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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217. “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.”

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

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219. “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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220. “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.”

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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. “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!”

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

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

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225. “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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226. “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.”

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227. “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.”

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “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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231. “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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232. “It was like finding someone and immediately having inside jokes, reading their mind and knowing their thoughts without even trying.”

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

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235. “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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236. “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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237. “I’d always been told that if you feed something it grows.”

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

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239. “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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240. “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.”

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241. “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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242. “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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243. “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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