Top 200 Rachel Vincent Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Wow. You guys are like a broken record. Don’t you ever get tired of the whole ‘knock ‘em our and drag ‘em back to the cave’ routine? ‘Cause I swear, Cro-Magnons were more subtle.”

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152. “You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled ‘Evidence Here!’? He’s a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!”

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153. “Five toms bound and gagged. One ruptured scrotum...”

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154. “But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he’d shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that he’d do anything to protect her. That’s how much Tod loved Addy. That’s how much I wanted Nash to love me.”

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155. “Had I just begged for an audience with Death?”

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156. “Dad, I can count the number of normal school days I’ve had this year on one hand.”

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157. “So don’t. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets.”

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158. “A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.”

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159. “Um, Faythe?” Marc reached for my arm, and a small grin turned up one corner of his beautiful mouth. “As my first official piece of advice to the new Alpha, let me suggest that you put on some pants. And maybe a shirt.” His grin grew and pulled me closer to whisper in my ear, while Jace watched us stiffly from across the room. “While the look definitely works for me, I’m thinking the other Alphas might take you more seriously if you dress the part.”

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160. “We share that misfortune, reaper...”

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161. “Love, my ass. The international language is food.”

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162. “But if monsters could look like humans, and humans could look like monsters, how could anyone ever really be sure that the right people stood on the outside of all those cages?”

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

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164. “But wanting something didn’t give one the right to have it.”

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165. “I feel like my life is a book, and someone turned the page before I was ready, and now I can’t follow the story.”

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166. “Come on, Kaylee, before I choke on testosterone and melodrama.”

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167. “I could take care of that obstacle for her – I’d tear down anything standing between us – but I couldn’t destroy what I couldn’t even see.”

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168. “I want to kiss you.” Jace’s whisper pulled me from my thoughts and I glanced up to find his eyes blazing with raw need. “Just because Marc won’t touch you doesn’t mean I shouldn’t. Right? I don’t have that kind of self-control, and honestly, I don’t see the point in it. Are you supposed to be impressed by how long we can go without touching you? ‘Cause if that’s the game we’re playing, I think I’d rather lose.”

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169. “I realized that I’d rather die with you than live with someone else.”

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170. “But love doesn’t make sense, Brian. It isn’t easy, and you can’t just decide to feel it. If we were in love, we’d want to talk to each other all the time, even if all we do is argue. We’d be pulled toward each other any time we’re in the same room. We’d have to fight the urge to touch each other, because we’re not supposed to, but ultimately, we’d lose that fight because when it’s love, it can’t be helped.”

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171. “Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.”

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172. “I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.”

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173. “Oh, I’m sure you just slipped and fell, and your tongue landed in her mouth. Right? Happens to the best of us.”

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174. “Exactly what part of that is supposed to make me feel better?” Though, honestly, hearing that she was jealous of me did make me feel a teeny, tiny bit better.”

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175. “They’d had to empty their pockets and turn over Aunt Val’s purse to the security guard. That way, I wouldn’t be tempted to try to kill anyone with her lip gloss and her travel-size pack of tissues.”

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176. “A cat’s body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying,” Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. “You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission.” Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.”

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177. “Sophie glanced from me to Sabine, then back, scowling. “I’m not scared of her. I can handle myself.” “Yeah, and hissing kittens think they’re badass too,” Sabine said.”

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178. “Just FYI, in your case, I think it’s okay to fear the reaper.”

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179. “I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at.”

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180. “I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind “refreshingly honest,” and hailed Marc’s temper as “a deep protective instinct.” He said Ethan “thoroughly enjoyed life,” and that Parker “really knew how to have a good time.” According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.”

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181. “That boy is a fool,” Jace growled. Then he bent toward me and tilted my face up, and that was the kiss that changed my life. The kiss that opened my eyes and woke up my body, and showed me exactly what I’d been missing.”

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182. “What is it about women and luggage? You don’t have to bring everything you own, and it shouldn’t take this long to throw some clothes into a bag. In fact, if it will save you any time, just leave the underwear out all together.”

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183. “Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.”

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184. “He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.”

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185. “Sneak out.” He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?”

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186. “Lit majors are not known for watching where they’re going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.”

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187. “My mother turned towards me with a coffeepot in each hand, her jaw dangling somewhere near her collarbone. You’d think she’d never seen me naked, when I knew for a fact I’d been born that way.”

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188. “Holy silicone suppository, Batman!” Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. “What?” My brother shrugged defensively. “That’s what it looks like.”

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189. “I’m like flypaper for the soul.”

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190. “Rumor has it you’ve conquered more territory than Genghis Khan.”

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191. “I have choices,” I insisted, refusing to break eye contact. “We both do. I may have to make mine carefully, and make a few compromises along the way, but I have a choice. I choose you.”

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192. “Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game.”

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193. “I couldn’t see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.”

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194. “We will make a rattle for our child from your teeth and phalanges, and stacking toys from your vertebrae. She will teethe on your kneecaps and we will rock her to sleep whispering tales of your bloody demise.”

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195. “A wolf will growl to warn you that it’s angry and a bull will paw the ground before charging. Rattlesnakes rattle, cats moan and hiss, and hyenas grunt and cackle. But a man will smile right in your face as he drives a knife into your heart.”

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196. “No, I didn’t want to be the latest on his rumored list of conquests, but I wouldn’t mind knowing I was worthy.”

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197. “We are a different kind of monster, Adele. The beasts in the forest do horrific things to people. We do horrific things to protect people. And that is rarely easy, it’s rarely neat or clean or pretty; yet it still must be done. Even when that makes us monsters.”

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198. “And if blood was thicker than water, then football, evidently, would congeal in one’s veins. “And that.”

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199. “Are you asking me to help you manipulate me?”

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200. “You have some kind of grudge against the doughnut industry? Did they forget to give you sprinkles?”

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