331 Quotes by Rachel Van Dyken

If you need to cry, I’ll hold you until you’re done. Sometimes the only way to get over things is to walk through them, but that doesn’t mean you have to do it on your own.

Denial happens when you realize it shouldn’t be you, that even if your brain connected the dots, it isn’t yet your time. The lovely little memories of your life start to play on repeat in your head – the moments you should have done something but didn’t, the things you’ll never say, the things you’ll never do.

My world shattered that day. I lost my best friend. I lost my heart. My shield. My soul. And buried it right along with his body. The boy who hadn’t been who he said he was – the boy who’d protected me from my own family. The boy who took two bullets for me and paid with his life. Bang, Bang was the new soundtrack to my life. Welcome to the Mafia.

Because you wear your intelligence, it’s part of your beauty. You can’t separate the two. I admire both. I’m attracted to both.

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.

Because no matter how damn bad I wanted to be the guy sharing her present, I’d lost that opportunity the minute I walked away in her past.

You made me weak. And every time I see you, I wonder, will it happen again? Because you, you’re the game changer, the one who makes me question everything, the one who makes me want to be better, the one I almost lost – the one I am so damn terrified of losing again.” A.

Don’t ruin it by saying something. Now. Go to class.

Crazy comes in all forms, even ones who look completely harmless.