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
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
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
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
Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.
—Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin
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
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