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Quotes from Rachel Van Dyken

It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get hung up on the past. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead.

—Rachel Van Dyken in The Bet

future past focus

I guess that’s what makes life special. It’s unexpected. Scary as hell. But in the end, totally worth it.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Tear

Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin

action now future past

Watching someone you love…die? There are no words for how broken that makes a person. It's like waking up from a bad dream only to find out that it's your reality, it's like watching sunlight fade from the sky, like watching death suck the one you love dry, and being powerless to stop it. You may as well try to stop the waves from rolling in, or the sun from rising. In the end, the waves will roll, the sun will set, and death will come. The only thing you have a choice in? How you deal with it when it does.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic

I was pretty sure that's how you know you're falling for someone—when you want the good and bad, when you want everything, regardless of how horrible, how dark. You want it all, because at the end of the day, it's still them.

—Rachel Van Dyken

love fear desire

How could I let a love go—one I'd been holding onto for so long—one that felt like home? It's not easy to let go of the pieces, even though they're the reason for my pain.

—Rachel Van Dyken

love pain release

How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic

Live your life as if each moment is your last. This isn't about going crazy. It's about appreciation.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Pull

life gratitude death sanity appreciation

Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but paralyzed. You want to yell at them, scream, help them, but your body won't move, and you know that no matter how hard you try, in the end, the path is theirs to choose. You can't choose for them. What a terrifying concept, especially considering we hardly see every option when we're stuck in our own self-defeat.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic

love choice help trapped self-defeat

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. Totally. Out. Of. Control. Giddiness.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Fearless

love ecstasy infatuation

Just because we aren't crying on the outside doesn't mean we aren't completely wrecked on the inside.

—Rachel Van Dyken

sadness emotion

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.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic

Love shouldn't be something you jump into because it's the right time in your life or because your friends are all married. It should be something that happens naturally, and in the end it turns into the supernatural because suddenly, you can't imagine waking up every day without that other half.

—Rachel Van Dyken in The Consequence of Loving Colton

Life isn't fair, but living? Living is heaven. Living is a gift. Every gift is different—every path is different—for some reason this is ours, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can stop crying and start living.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin

Books

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