Top 100 Rachel Van Dyken Quotes
#2. If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself.
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#3. Control what you can, love what you can, and the rest, well ... the rest was just the rest.
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#4. I gave up trying to protect my shattered heart. I gave up trying to be strong. Everything - every single wall I had erected was gone, and in its place was her.
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#5. You, little girl, better be careful. You're dangerously close to getting me to fall for you, and I don't do relationship, I do girls. Call me if you're ever lonely.
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#6. My heart will always beat for you and you alone, my friend, my lover, my enemy, my soul.
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#7. London.
In two days.
London, England.
May God save her ... forget the queen.
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#8. Five minutes.
Around seventy-two steps later... I was in front of Saylor's door.
It was just a door.
But beyond that door?
Was not just a girl.
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#9. Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy. I needed the distance, I needed to think the worst because for some reason his every action drew me
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#10. It's funny isn't it? People claim to know what love is
yet the minute they're given the opportunity to prove it
they bail.
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#11. You rescued me and I found my ruin." I bit down on my lip. "I'm ruined for you - and I won't ever be the same. It's the greatest gift anyone has ever given me.
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#12. He tasted like cinnamon - too bad I was allergic to cinnamon. Good thing I didn't go into anaphylactic shock from the kiss. That would have been awkward
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#13. Love ice cream, I love pancakes, I love the color blue - bullshit. Because when I said love - I meant I bled for you. When the word love actually leaves my lips - I'm speaking it into existence. I'm empowering my soul - I'm joining with yours.
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#14. I was the little sister he'd never had - and secretly, I'd always wanted to be so much more.
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#15. Love is never a sure thing, man. You're never going to be totally certain that the person you offer your heart to will accept it with open hands, but if you don't take that risk you'll never reap the benefits of what it has to offer.
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#16. We don't know what's going to happen, but I can make a promise to you right now. Your hand's going to be in mine the entire time. Kiersten, I swear to never let you go. Through sickness, through health, through happy times, through sad times. I'm yours.
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#17. Because of you, Kace. Everything I do, everything I've done in my life, it's all because of you.
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#18. Did you just compare your sexual prowess to Chuck Norris's karate skills?" I asked. "Same thing." Gabe shrugged. Shaking
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#19. Demetri: I won't abandon you. I'm sure as hell not going to listen to you, and you can damn well know that I'm going to fight for you.
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#20. Swear - " I shook my head. "Every time I tell myself to wake up, the nightmare just gets more real.
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#22. I shouldn't have looked. If I could go back in time, I would have. I had no idea that one look would devastate me. Weeks from now I would regret that one look, for one reason and one reason only. His eyes held my ruin.
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#23. She'd eat with us. She'd want for nothing. It was the least I could do after what I was about to make her endure.
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#24. He'd given me his heart a long time ago - and now I was giving it back, not because I didn't want it. But because I wanted to share it. With him. Forever. - Kiersten
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#25. That's stupid." I laughed into his chest. "Boys can't save girls." "You're right." He kissed my temple. "It's the other way around.
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#26. I'm so marrying him for his wine. Don't judge me. Girls have needs.
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#27. I couldn't be his friend. When you were friends with boys, it never worked. It always turned into something more, and then when you got really close, the one person you swore you'd give your everything to, leaves.
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#28. You are everything that's beautiful and pure in this world, and you deserve so much better than this life, than what any of us have to offer. Than what I have to offer.
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#30. Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.
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#31. Why was I the lucky one getting haunted by the gangster of Christmas past?
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#32. God, you're beautiful."
"I better be, I put on lip gloss
and brushed my hair at least a hundred
times throughout the night in fear you'd
wake up and scream.
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#33. Don't you have an STD to spread?" I tilted my head in cool indifference.
He pushed away from the wall, "Why, you open for business?
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#34. Each stroke of your fingers is a different word that describes the story. By itself it's meaningless, but - " I pushed down on a few fingers helping her play a few notes. "String them together and you have a melody. You have a story. So, Saylor, what story do you want to tell?
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#35. Russell Wilson." Eric sighed dreamily then pointed a fork in my direction. "He's better than Tom Brady.
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#37. I would drink that whole bottle if I knew it wouldn't get me completely drunk. I miss wine."
"Um, you haven't had it for one night, and you miss it?"
"Clearly, you underestimate my relationship with wine and what I do on the weekends when I'm by myself reading.
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#38. The type of love that makes you want to laugh out loud - scream a bit - run in circles - and then repeat? Yeah that's how I felt about Wes. Totally. Out. Of. Control. Giddiness
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#39. Keep me," I begged. "Please." "That's my line." His eyes locked on mine. "That's been my line all my life." "And now it's mine." I kissed his hands. "Let me stay." "And if something happens?" "You'll know you were kept." "Yeah." He sighed resting his forehead against mine. "And so will you."
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#40. I love you, Trace. I always have. Just remember that, okay? Hold on to it. No matter what I say or what I do ... and trust me, I'll do some terrible things. Just know. I love you. With every fiber of my being.
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#41. I'd just single handedly given the love of my life to my best friend - on a silver platter, with a shiny bow attached.
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#42. Fear ... " I uncrossed her arms and linked my fingers with hers. "Is what makes us feel alive. Fear causes our blood vessels to constrict, and then the amygdala, a tiny almond shaped part of our brain, sends signals to our nervous system. The signal says run or fight.
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#44. The nurse smiled and patted my arm. Don't give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written The End, what he really means is The Beginning.
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#45. Kessen groaned, then silently wondered if she should download the e-reader application for her phone she could pretend to be texting but be reading instead. It might look odd for her to be staring at her phone for long periods of time.
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#46. What if you take the one part of me that's finally started to breathe without crying?
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#47. I believe in you," she blurted, tears in her eyes. "I just ... I want you to know that despite everything ... I believe in you.
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#48. I feel lost." "Let me find you." "I feel sick." "Let me heal you." I kissed her head. "I feel sad." "Let me be your happiness.
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#49. Sometimes,when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you're scared, the best response is laughter.Laugh in the face of fear, in the face of what scares you the most.It's the only way to get you through the things that bring you to tears.
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#50. I ignored the dark circles under her eyes, just like I ignored the clenching in my stomach that she was starting to bruise more around her hands.
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#51. There was a cliff,snow, and I'm pretty sure Benadryl was involved."" Always is." Jake shook his head.
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#52. Living is hard
dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really
except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.
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#53. Oh, I just love the Tube! And the Facebook! And the Tweets!" "Why do you keep putting the in front of those?" "Out of respect." Grandma's eyebrow rose all the way to her hairline. "You never address the president as president.
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#54. Just don't give him your everything - not until you know the return will be the same.
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#55. Today we have badminton set up, as well as a hike around the grounds, and trivia questions in the evening. Any questions?"
"When did we sign up for the senior citizen cruise?" Christian ridiculed.
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#56. Being with Demetri wasn't the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.
From Pull: A Seaside Novel
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#57. I don't deserve her." I cleared my throat. "But I want her anyways.
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#58. Live your life as if each moment is your last. This isn't about going crazy. It's about appreciation.
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#59. Realized it wasn't just someone completing him, it was the added compliment of having her near.
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#60. When fear actually turns into a friend. When you open your eyes and all you see is the dark because it's been so long since you've seen the light.
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#61. But when a person's so stuck in their own hole of darkness - it hurts like hell when someone shines a light on them. Your eyes have to adjust, and let's just say it isn't a pleasant experience; it's why people stay there.
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#62. 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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#63. I love your eyes. But I love mine more.'Cause without them, I won't see yours.
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#64. Love is just like magic. It takes special care to discover, but once you have it in the palm of your hand, it spreads throughout your heart and soul. When you find love, you have to hold on to it. You have to promise to never let it go.
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#65. I prayed over and over again that God would spare me, not because I cared that much about my own life
but because I cared about hers.
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#66. Yeah. I'd fight demons for her. I'd fight the darkness in me, the sickness. I'd fight that damn tumor. And I'd live. Because I sure as hell wanted a 2014 with that girl in my arms.
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#67. Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which in fact was actually quite the opposite of true.
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#68. It wasn't that it had been too long without a girl. It was that it'd been a lifetime without the right one.
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#70. For the first time in a year, I wanted to live
because I wanted to spend every freaking day watching her open her eyes to the world. Hell, I wanted to be the first thing she saw. Sometimes, reality's a bitch.
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#71. I'm falling for you too. I haven't fallen. Falling. As in still falling, still in the air, still trying to get used to the idea that I've just nose dived off a cliff with every intention of making sure the landing doesn't break my fall."
"And if it does?"
"Then at least I still jumped.
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#72. I wasn't one of those girls who got tiny hunger pangs when it was time to eat, then took a few sips of water, burped, wiped my mouth, and announced I was full. Hell, no. Carbs. Give. Me. Carbs. Give me protein. Give me chocolate and I'll be your best friend.
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#73. Hell, my parents forgot my birthday, yet threw a freaking party for the family Chihuahua.
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#74. I was your punishment." She sniffled. "Wrong." I tilted her chin up. "You were my gift.
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#75. We'd sit. we'd eat. And I'd pretend that I wasn't in irreversible love with his girlfriend. No.Big.Deal.
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#76. For a moment, life isn't as hard as it seems. Effortless. It's effortless, and then the gauntlet falls.
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#77. Welcome to the land of the living sweetheart. Everyone's messed up. It's what makes us human.
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#78. Love isn't the expectation that eventually you'll end up in heartache; it's the expectation that you can fully trust another human being with everything and still hope for a happy ending.
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#79. When you already love someone, you don't notuce what they look anymore after you get to know them. It's because you don't just see them anymore. You see what are inside. And that is love.
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#80. I didn't want someone saying it was going to be okay. See, that's the worst thing you can do to a girl. Say it's going to be okay when she knows it's not, when she's knows that the only real ending to the story is heartache.
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#81. Because that's the thing about madness ... it breeds brilliance
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#82. If only I would have done this, I should have done this, I could have done this ... " He swore. "Life is full of those three.
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#83. I'm not backing out of the fight. I'm just choosing not to participate in it, especially when I know I don't deserve to even participate, let alone win.
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#84. Guys should not be allowed to be prettier than girls; it just isn't right, or fair.
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#85. You being creepy and smelling my hair again," Kiersten said in a groggy voice.
"Not creepy," I argued.
"Very creepy," Gabe said from the chair. "I watched the whole thing and I am sufficiently creeped out."
"It's romantic, damn it!" Lisa all but shouted.
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#86. No." I tilted her chin up. "I expect you to live a damn good life. I expect you to listen to me when I tell you there has never been anyone but you. No one. Only you, always you, forever you. And I'm sorry, but I won't take back what I did." - Nixon
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#87. Life has two stages. Birth and death. That's it. What you do in between the two? Well, that's up to you, isn't it?
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#88. You can't go into things with the mindset of already failing. Being fearful isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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#89. As burns this saint, so burns my soul. I enter alive, and I will have to get out dead.
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#90. Good looking? Check. Brilliant? Check. Rich? Check. Possible sociopath? Double check. Great. I was dining with Ted Bundy.
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#91. Stefan felt around him for a chair, because he dare not take his eyes off the sleeping beauty before him. He finally managed to grab at something and sat.
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#92. I felt that way, lost, like a missing puzzle piece that forgot it was a part of the rest of the puzzle.
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#93. The truth really does set you free - but what they don't tell you is the process hurts like hell.
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#94. You see boring. I see brilliant. You see brown hair. I see brown hair with honey highlights. You see normal pale-pink lips. I see bubble gum." "Bubble gum?" She smirked. "That's what you taste like." I nipped her lower lip with my teeth. "Damn bubblegum that never loses its flavor.
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#95. The thing about your past ... it never stays there. We just think it does until the time comes for it to reveal itself in all its gory shame. And there's nothing, absolutely nothing a person can do, but watch
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#97. Patience, Abigail. Patience."
Abigail snorted. "Patience, right. I am known for having a great handle on the Fruits of the Spirit."
"Interesting. I don't recall manipulation being a Biblical virtue.
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#98. I need you like I need my heart to pump blood through my body, like I need air to breathe, like we need gravity.
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#100. You're crazy as hell - but you're my crazy. I want to live in that head of yours. I want to hear about the crazy things you conjure up in that imagination of yours.
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