There were no words in the English language to describe how much life it sucked out of a person – how it still hurt, years later, how you still heard that person’s voice and woke up running into the kitchen only to realize that they weren’t ever coming back.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Rachel Van Dyken Quotes

All our lives we’re told that ugly, deformed, is bad – but it’s a lie. Sometimes the most terrifying things you will ever encounter are also the most beautiful.

— Rachel Van Dyken

I choose you, I just need you to choose me back.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Healing was more than just being cured of cancer or finding the one who actually saw you for you. It was more than getting over your past, embracing your future. Healing’s waking up every day when you’d rather stay in bed; healing’s when you smile instead of cry; healing’s when you can hold your head high, despite what demons try to pull it down. And life was full of it, full of opportunities to cut and run, rather than stay put and face the storm. They never.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Death answers before it is asked. – Russian Proverb.

— Rachel Van Dyken

I was once told that when the brain conjures up memories, physically and mentally it’s like reliving what happened.

— Rachel Van Dyken

I took a deep breath and counted to seven so I wouldn’t rip his head off. Seven was a safe number, three wasn’t long enough, and ten just made people think you were senile and having a mild stroke.

— Rachel Van Dyken

I want to be your first and your last. I want to be your everything. But I’m willing to wait until you’re ready for this. For this feeling. I want you to memorize it. Memorize life, Alyssa. Because that’s what I want for us. I want for us to.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Maybe Nixon knew that my one personality flaw was that I loved too much. Loved too hard. I didn’t know how to go in halfway. So when I saw something I wanted, I dove head first with my heart and left my brain behind.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Can I think about it?” “Sure.” I nodded. “You have two minutes. Also, did you miss the part where I said sunset? True love?

— Rachel Van Dyken

Nobody puts baby in a corner. Nobody.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Just don’t give him your everything – not until you know the return will be the same.

— Rachel Van Dyken

We do not care what we have, but we cry when it is lost. –Russian Proverb.

— Rachel Van Dyken

I’m going to fight for her. I’m going to fight every damn day I have breath in my body, and if I die trying than at least I died loving someone with every part of my soul.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Trace,” I licked my lips and sighed, “To me. You’re everything. I’d protect you until my dying day because I can’t imagine living in a world where your smile didn’t exist.

— Rachel Van Dyken

You do not catch villains by chasing them.” Andrei tapped his temple with his fingertip. “You catch them by standing still. By waiting.

— Rachel Van Dyken

It’s a pipe dream, one I will never follow, but that’s the thing about dreams. Even if we don’t accomplish them, they still exist, floating around in our psyche reminding us that there are things we need to do before we leave this earth, and making us feel resentful that we’ll probably never be able to do them.

— Rachel Van Dyken

I’d always been told that if you feed something it grows.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Hell, I was her demon. And now I was wiping her tears and holding her close. I was no saint. I was the darkness that chased her. I was what haunted her dreams, I was her nightmare, and yet she held me like I was the knight that had ridden in on my white horse – she was right about one thing – the horse was white, but the knight was no servant to the king – he was fallen, and she’d singlehandedly resurrected him, not realizing something was very wrong.

— Rachel Van Dyken

Forgive me – ” I whispered into the cool night air “ – for showing you the knight, when the whole time, I was the wolf. Forgive me, God. Forgive me. Amen.

— Rachel Van Dyken

When you’re the one who causes the pain, you do everything in your power to make it better.

— Rachel Van Dyken
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