331 Quotes by Rachel Van Dyken

Putting your hair in a bun is like wearing tight pants on Thanksgiving. Eventually the stuffing’s gonna pop right on out.

It wasn’t that it had been too long without a girl. It was that it’d been a lifetime without the right one.

I don’t to save the world- I just want to save you.

If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself.

To want someone so desperately that you would sacrifice anything, actual human lives, possibly your own soul, to have it.

A day ago I was worried he’d look the other way if a car was barreling toward me. Now... well, now it felt like he would do anything to keep me close – almost as if he’d lost me before and knew what it felt like to be without me. But that was crazy. Clearly I’d never been kissed like that before, because my mind was conjuring up all sorts of crazy stories. I needed to stop reading so much.

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.

The minute our lips touched, those brief seconds you saved me, touched me, joined with me. For those measly seconds – seconds of living a lifetime of a million lonely seconds – I was complete.

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. You no longer want to be an individual but a team.