Top 200 Rachel Vincent Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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.”

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52. “I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.”

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53. “I got swirling eyes and the capacity to shatter windows with my bare voice. Tod got teleportation and invisibility. The supernatural world is so far from fair.”

— Rachel Vincent

54. “But if there was a protocol for how to say goodbye to your newly ex-boyfriend’s brother, right after you kissed him and probably sent your ex into the arms of his willing ex-girlfriend, I didn’t know what it was.”

— Rachel Vincent

55. “You’re not lost, Kaylee. You can’t ever be lost, because I’ll always know where you are. And if I’m not there with you, I’m on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long.”

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56. “The world isn’t black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism.”

— Rachel Vincent

57. “I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.”

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58. “Did you think you could dump me, and I’d bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? I’m not a Ping-Pong ball. You can’t just swat me back and forth and expect me to be content wherever I land. If Tod dumped you tomorrow, would you come back to me?”

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59. “The world lost something when you died, Tod, and I know that wasn’t easy for your family. But the world’s loss was Kaylee’s gain. I hope the two of you have the forever her mother and I never got. I will do my damnedest to make sure of that. I know you will.”

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60. “I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.”

— Rachel Vincent

61. “I’d just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.”

— Rachel Vincent

62. “Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.”

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63. “Relief washed over me like that first air-conditioned breeze on a hot summer day.”

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64. “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.”

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65. “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

66. “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

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

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

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69. “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.”

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

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71. “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

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

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73. “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

74. “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.”

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

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76. “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?”

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77. “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.”

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

— Rachel Vincent

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

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80. “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.”

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

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82. “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.”

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83. “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.”

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

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

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86. “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.”

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87. “Because the alternative sucks!”

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88. “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.”

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

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90. “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.”

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91. “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.”

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92. “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.”

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93. “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.”

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94. “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 –.”

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

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

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

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98. “If Eastlake High School were the universe, I would be one of the moons circling Planet Emma, constantly hidden by her shadow, and glad to be there. Nash Hudson would be one of the stars: too bright to look at, too hot to touch and at the center of his own solar system.”

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99. “Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I’d thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.”

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100. “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