331 Quotes by Rachel Van Dyken

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    Aw, baby, that’s like turning the key to an engine and then deciding not to drive... it’s just... cruel to the car.

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    I would have kissed you harder. I would have fought for you more. I don’t know. I would have stolen you away, taken your virtue, made myself so permanently etched on your person that every time you took a breath it was my scent that was permeating the air.

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    She was out the door maybe five feet before she turned around one last time. They always did. They always would. I waved. She flipped me off. She might as well have kissed me.

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    I’m talking about a different type of madness. The kind that follows you into your dreams, only to haunt you when you’re awake. A madness that sucks joy out of every good thing in life and makes you feel guilty about smiling.

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    And it made me wonder if sometimes the greatest loss you ever feel is something that nobody will see when they look at you.

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    Blake rolled her eyes, then leaned in and blew over the tomato soup, her plump lips forming the perfect O. I watched. Even Lex watched. The room went dead silent. She finally glanced up at us. Lex turned around and started whistling while I continued staring. “You blow well,” I said in my most romantic voice. “Coming from you” -she shook her head-“I’ll take that as the highest of compliments.

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    I was your punishment.” She sniffled. “Wrong.” I tilted her chin up. “You were my gift.

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