Top 100 Quotes About Higginson
#1. Emma, I have had four children! Four of them! Do you understand the state of my vagina? What kind of man goes out on a date with a woman that has four children?
Rachel Higginson
#2. In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#3. There are no mistakes, Eden, just different outcomes to our flawed expectations.
Rachel Higginson
#4. Love that is enough. Love that is big enough for two. Love that is endless enough for more. Love that is just between me and you.
Rachel Higginson
#5. You don't remember?" Hendrix asked with narrowed eyes. "Then we'll talk about it later. I'll help you remember." His voice was smooth sex appeal as it washed over my body and I shivered involuntarily.
Rachel Higginson
#7. You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists except you. I love you.
Rachel Higginson
#8. How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,
a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#10. Sometimes love didn't make sense. And that was okay. It was far better to know love and accept love than try to understand it.
Rachel Higginson
#11. The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers ... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas W. Higginson
#12. It's okay to be sad, Mummy." Lucy promised on a know-it-all whisper. "But don't be sad all day. He only went on vacation. He wouldn't leave us forever. He loves us too much.
Rachel Higginson
#13. Liz, I didn't expect to fall for you, not like this ... not so completely. And I never expected for you to fall for me too. But here we are. Let's see where this goes. Let's see how far left there is to fall.
Rachel Higginson
#14. Someone created all of this, all of the beauty of the earth, all of the fragility of human life and all of the extraordinary existence of us. Choosing to believe in a god only when you are surrounded by death and destruction is to truly not know God at all.
Rachel Higginson
#16. Holy hell, Hendrix was going to get eaten by my crotch that had evolved into a man-eating gorilla sometime over the last two years!
Rachel Higginson
#17. All I wanted was my money. Instead, I got you. You, the one person in the world I have to convince I'm charming, and on top of that I find out that my texts are annoying.
Rachel Higginson
#18. Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.
Rachel Higginson
#20. I would have wanted you, yes. You're gorgeous and that's just the man in me. But I meant mine, Haley. I would have wanted you to be mine.
Rachel Higginson
#21. This story is about me learning to live again after love left my life.
Rachel Higginson
#22. Aren't you going to rape me?" I demanded a little put out that the thought hadn't even crossed his mind. "What? Do you want me to rape you?" He asked sounding more appalled than before. Good for him; this was a single guy at the end of the world with standards.
Rachel Higginson
#23. It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten ... but the hurt stays in the heart.
Ella Higginson
#24. She looked like the well put-together mom I would never be. Of course, she wasn't a full-time, single mom and therefore had time for things like hair appointments and manicures. Also, her body had not pushed four bowling balls out her vagina, so she had that going for her too.
Rachel Higginson
#25. My father obsesses over everything current and cool to the point he can karaoke to Gaga,
Rachel Higginson
#26. It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#27. If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.
Ella Higginson
#28. We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else.
Rachel Higginson
#29. I think you forget that I'm still alive. It's like you don't expect me to keep on existing now that I'm not in your life every day.
Rachel Higginson
#30. True love, whether you live your life on the run or spend it in the same house where you raise your children, is never easy and it's certainly never safe. It's a risk we take believing the reward is greater than what we give up.
Rachel Higginson
#31. I knew that I loved him. I knew that he was the only man I would ever love.
Rachel Higginson
#33. And that meant STDs. Why? Because men would always be sluts. Always.
Rachel Higginson
#34. The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#35. If he were cast in my Zombie version of Vampire Diaries, he so would have been Stefan, the very brother I wanted to watch die of something grotesque and gruesome. Team Daemon every single day.
Rachel Higginson
#36. Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#38. I just stood their frozen, waiting for my opportunity to strike.
Rachel Higginson
#39. Hendrix pulled back from me and stared down with a deeper intensity than I had ever seen from him. "Save me from this," he pleaded with a rough voice. "I can't," I sniffled. "But I can walk through it with you.
Rachel Higginson
#40. It's too late for that. Ivy Pierce may be trouble, but she's exactly the kind of trouble I've been looking for.
Rachel Higginson
#41. I thought we were perfect for each other."
"There's no such thing as perfect," Eli commiserated.
Rachel Higginson
#42. I found Reagan in the crowd and chose to stand next to her. I now had a place in her life, this was me stepping up to fulfill it.
Rachel Higginson
#43. Where are you supposed to stay?" He ground out ...
"Hendrix, are you kidding me?"
"By me, Reagan. Always, by me," he answered, ignoring my sarcasm.
Rachel Higginson
#44. I could feel my tan skin, turning translucent with nerves,
Rachel Higginson
#45. I couldn't let him go.
I didn't want to let him go.
Letting him go meant acknowledging that he would never come back. And I just couldn't. I needed him too much.
I loved him too much.
Rachel Higginson
#46. And I was next to a boy I'd started thinking of as more than a stranger, more than a friend. He was somewhere in between my future and my present, I just didn't have a word for him yet. Other than safe.
He was my safety.
He was what made me feel protected.
Rachel Higginson
#47. He pushed me beyond being delicate, into a place I had never thought I would go again. He made me strong. He demanded that I be anything but weak and broken.
Rachel Higginson
#48. The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#49. You are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me, Lizzy. His voice was broken and scratchy and a tear slid out from the corner of each of his eyes.
Rachel Higginson
#50. If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.
Rachel Higginson
#51. I think you're pretty face on stage will help draw a bigger crowd.
Rachel Higginson
#53. Suddenly living in the Zombie apocalypse didn't feel like the seventh circle of hell It felt possible and full of potential
Rachel Higginson
#55. Why are you so nice to me? You barely know me."
A soft smile played on his lips, "But I like what I know so far. And I am excited for what else there is to find out.
Rachel Higginson
#56. Yes. Eden, I fell in love with you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. But you fell in love with somebody else. And he gets to marry you. And then probably murder you. But you'd still rather be with him than with me,
Rachel Higginson
#57. Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#61. Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#62. He shot me a cocky smile. "Definitely dibbs." I rolled my eyes because my brother was stupidly stubborn. "Dude, she's not the front seat of mom's old minivan.
Rachel Higginson
#63. I've got everything I need right here." That sentimental thought met a room full of cheesy and sarcastic "aw's" and an empty water bottle thrown at my head. No, stop guys, really. You're embarrassing me.
Rachel Higginson
#64. All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#65. And Ellie, if Fin is offering his heart to you, it's just a formality because believe me when I say you already have it.
Rachel Higginson
#66. I can't take anymore heartbreak," I confessed on a broken whisper.
"Then it's a good thing I'm not going to break your heart." He leaned down and pressed a kiss to my lips.
Rachel Higginson
#67. Love is more than enough to survive with; its enough to live with.
Rachel Higginson
#68. Survival's enough for now, Reagan. And when it isn't, you'll learn to love again. I know that, I believe that about you.
Rachel Higginson
#69. Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#70. Love is the strongest motivator of all Reagan. Stronger than fear, stronger than hate, stronger than whatever else.
Rachel Higginson
#71. At the end of this whole Apocalypse thing, I was petitioning to have action figures made of them.
Rachel Higginson
#72. It's easy to get stuck thinking one particular way. And a lot of times it's even good to be rooted in your beliefs. But every once in a while someone comes along and blows everything you ever thought to be true right out of the water. Sometimes it's more important to be flexible than right.
Rachel Higginson
#73. His Zen is genetic. You should meet his parents. You could rob them at gunpoint and they would still ask you to dinner and make sure you got everything valuable in the house,
Rachel Higginson
#74. You were patient all this time. I had to find myself first; I had to remember who I was and become the person I was meant to be. You have been there for me patiently while I searched for you, even when I didn't know I was looking for you, you were there.
Rachel Higginson
#75. Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson
#76. I'm going to be gentle with you, Liz. We're going to treat this delicately. I'm going to let this happen slowly, let us fall slowly. But I am not asking too much of you.
Rachel Higginson
#77. We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free
Rachel Higginson
#78. Nevertheless this was life. I could wish that life was fair and that things were different, but this is what it was and I was determined to make the best of it. I needed to move forward, and fight the battles put in front of me and cherish the friendships that surrounded me.
Rachel Higginson
#79. The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#80. These lives we lived were a gift and precious and so short. I wanted to spend my time authentically, surrounded by people I truly loved.
Rachel Higginson
#81. If I was going to be treated like a child, then I was going to act like one.
Rachel Higginson
#82. Whatever dude, just as long as you're ok with carrying this thing out looking like Disco Barbie, it's cool with us.
Rachel Higginson
#83. Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.
Rachel Higginson
#84. I had never been out of the country before. And maybe this trip didn't technically count because, well, America had officially imploded and I hadn't needed a passport to cross the border, but I was more than a little disappointed we hadn't run into a mariachi band yet. Donde esta el Zombies?
Rachel Higginson
#85. If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#86. You're not safe. Not anymore. Three years of peace, but they've been plotting and it's your head they want next.
Rachel Higginson
#87. This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.
Rachel Higginson
#88. He groaned as if frustrated and then whispered almost so quietly I didn't hear him, I'm going to keep you.
Rachel Higginson
#89. You keep saying words like crazy and insane and risky, but Vera, the best things in life are all of those things. You can't reap big rewards if you don't take big risks.
Rachel Higginson
#90. One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free, I vowed.
Rachel Higginson
#91. He was at the very beginning of his love life and I had watched mine wither and die. He was free to date whomever he wanted and I had buried the greatest love of my life.
Rachel Higginson
#92. I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.
Rachel Higginson
#93. Yes my love, because Eden, I have loved you avidly from the first moment I saw you and I will love you completely with all that I am until the day I die.
Rachel Higginson
#94. I told you, E; we should have brought the explosives,' Xander grumbled underneath his breath in good humor.
Rachel Higginson
#95. In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#96. I was sure that if he didn't have that damn accent I would have seen through him immediately. Oh, those Brits could be so charming and manipulative with their proper way of talking.
Rachel Higginson
#97. I do love you Eden, with all that I am. I don't believe there has been a more perfect love to ever exist in all of eternity, in fact. And I plan on sharing the rest of that eternity with only you
Rachel Higginson
#98. I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.
Rachel Higginson
#99. An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#100. Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
