Top 200 Rachel Vincent Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.”

— Rachel Vincent

52. “Welcome to the menagerie, where beauty and grace shine from every cage and peek from every shadow. You’ve never seen anything like the exotic wonders within, so keep your eyes open, ladies and gentlemen, because in our world of spectacle and illusion, what you see isn’t always what you get.”

— Rachel Vincent

53. “I’m glad you think so. I’ve always considered my sense of humor to be largely underappreciated, so it’s nice to finally meet a fan.”

— Rachel Vincent

54. “Come near me and I’ll rip your wings off and beat you with them.”

— Rachel Vincent

55. “So, ‘reaper’ is really just a nice word for ‘covert pervert?’ Is that what you’re saying?”

— Rachel Vincent

56. “Em didn’t truly understand about my panic attacks – no one did. But she’d never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.”

— Rachel Vincent

57. “The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you’re not prepared for disappointment when it comes.”

— Rachel Vincent

58. “Kaylee, you’re adding two and two and coming up with seven.”

— Rachel Vincent

59. “Anger is great. It’s powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you’re alone with the truth, anger can’t survive. The only thing that can live in the dark with you is fear.”

— Rachel Vincent

60. “Then strong, warm arms wrapped around me from behind. “I’ve got you,” Tod whispered in my ear.”

— Rachel Vincent

61. “What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.”

— Rachel Vincent

62. “Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry – and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.”

— Rachel Vincent

63. “He went down like a cheerleader after prom.”

— Rachel Vincent

64. “If she were going to die, I’d already be screaming. I’m a Banshee. That’s what we do.”

— Rachel Vincent

65. “Marc didn’t want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever.”

— Rachel Vincent

66. “The school sent you flowers. I’m sure that totally makes up for the fact that they hired the psychotic, soul-stealing pedophile who murdered you in your own home.”

— Rachel Vincent

67. “From adult diapers to bedpans? Move over, Elvis, I’m the afterlife of the party!”

— Rachel Vincent

68. “Oh fine. I’ll play nice with the pretty people.”

— Rachel Vincent

69. “When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent when Marc did, as if I could see peoples mouths moving, but I couldnt hear what they were saying. Like I’d gone deaf.”

— Rachel Vincent

70. “I’m saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal – assuming that ever happens – I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I’m done walking away from things I want just because they don’t come easily. You’re worth the work.”

— Rachel Vincent

71. “Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.”

— Rachel Vincent

72. “There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I’d done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his.”

— Rachel Vincent

73. “I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.”

— Rachel Vincent

74. “In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.”

— Rachel Vincent

75. “I have to believe that human decency will prevail. That the world is better than this. That faced with the evidence of injustice, deep down they will all want to make it right.”

— Rachel Vincent

76. “I liked that about her. I liked how laid back she was, when she wasn’t trying to stab me.”

— Rachel Vincent

77. “He’s like the Rasputin of reapers.”

— Rachel Vincent

78. “Think of it as a second opinion on his value. If he wasn’t worth the fight, wouldn’t she just let him go? Wouldn’t you?”

— Rachel Vincent

79. “If you cut off my hands, I’ll write with my feet, and if you cut off my feet, I’ll write with my nose, and if you cut that off, you may as well cut my whole head off, because no matter how you slice and dice me, you can’t control what I think, or what I feel. You can keep me locked up for the rest of my life, however brief that may be. But you will never, ever own me.”

— Rachel Vincent

80. “The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I’d be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.”

— Rachel Vincent

81. “She just got out of the hospital. Why don’t you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?”

— Rachel Vincent

82. “She was destruction given form and purpose. Hers was an elegant savagery.”

— Rachel Vincent

83. “I’m confiscating your hair dryer – you’ve fried your brain.”

— Rachel Vincent

84. “Because the alternative sucks!”

— Rachel Vincent

85. “My shirt got torn in a fight. Yours evidently has a fast-release tab.”

— Rachel Vincent

86. “Justice is for the victim. Vengeance is for the survivor.”

— Rachel Vincent

87. “Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else – everyone else – slips right between my grasping fingers.”

— Rachel Vincent

88. “I held her tighter, just because I could. Because she was fierce, and beautiful, and mind.”

— Rachel Vincent

89. “Crap. He was actually crying. I didn’t know how to deal with a crying father. I barely knew how to deal with a normal one.”

— Rachel Vincent

90. “He took both of my hands, twisting to face me more fully on the flattened box beneath us, and again the colors in his irises seemed to pulse with my heartbeat.”

— Rachel Vincent

91. “Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. “I like him. Not sure why he’s wasting his time with the pole dancer, though.” Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. “Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She’s not a pole dancer.” “There’s more money in pole dancing,” Sabine insisted.”

— Rachel Vincent

92. “Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.”

— Rachel Vincent

93. “He’s not like you, Tod. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions, you tend to think things through, but Nash is ruled by his heart –.”

— Rachel Vincent

94. “Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.”

— Rachel Vincent

95. “It’s not the amount of time that matters, Nina. It’s what you do with it.”

— Rachel Vincent

96. “I had no desire to hear another woman tell my boyfriend how hot he was. If I wanted him to know, I’d damn well tell him myself.”

— Rachel Vincent

97. “I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and – at least for the time being – I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.”

— Rachel Vincent

98. “Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.”

— Rachel Vincent

99. “When love is not madness, it is not love.”

— Rachel Vincent

100. “She wasn’t feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.”

— Rachel Vincent