“It's important to keep your options open.It's important to live and not get s 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.You don't drive a car that way, so why would you live your life that way?.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“Sometimes,when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you're scared, the best response is laughter.Laugh in the face of fear, in the face of what scares you the most.It's the only way to get you through the things that bring you to tears.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“It's not a fear.Kacey drank her wine faster."It's a scary movie!" "It's Alice in Wonderland.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“Yes, I'll marry you.....Satan."
"Awww, see? We already gave pet names!”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“That, he said as he kissed her nose."Is a shame.You should be told you're beautiful every day.Because every day it's true, and every time i see you ,you grow in your beauty.Just because people don't say the words, doesn't mean its any less true,Kace.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“I bet him a million dollars when I was eight, that I would marry you.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“I would drink that whole bottle if I knew it wouldn’t get me completely drunk. I miss wine.”
“Um, you haven’t had it for one night, and you miss it?”
“Clearly, you underestimate my relationship with wine and what I do on the weekends when I’m by myself reading.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“There was a cliff,snow, and I'm pretty sure Benadryl was involved."" Always is." Jake shook his head.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“I love your eyes. But I love mine more.'Cause without them, I won't see yours.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“I think if you love someone, you shouldn't care about her appearance at all. Loving someone because of her physical attribute isn't love. It's either lust or crush.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“Because of you, Kace. Everything I do, everything I’ve done in my life, it’s all because of you.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“The way I see it…” She smacked her lips together. “Is if you date a person in the morning, that gives you all day to play.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“Oh gosh, it's moving! It's so gross! Can't you just, like, flex your butt or something?
Why, yes. Travis clenched his teeth. Why don't I just clench my butt muscles in hopes that it will shock the spider enough to crawl back into the hellhole it came out of?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“When you already love someone, you don't notuce what they look anymore after you get to know them. It's because you don't just see them anymore. You see what are inside. And that is love.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“Sometimes, when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you’re scared, the best response is laughter. Laugh in the face of fear, in the face of what scares you the most. It’s the only way to get you through the things that bring you to tears.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
“It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get so 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. You don’t drive a car that way, so why would you live your life that way? Isn’t life more important than driving that beat up Subaru?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, quote from The Bet
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“To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.”
― Charlotte Brontë, quote from Villette
“To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity. He is a part of no whole, a freak without a place. If he cannot hold onto his reason, then he is lost indeed: most utterly and most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse. It”
― John Wyndham, quote from The Day of the Triffids
“Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary”
― Stephen King, quote from Cujo
“Or maybe they're the only sane ones. After all, they're the ones with all the power and riches. They're the ones who get everybody else to do what they want them to do, like die for them and work for them and get them into power and protect them and pay taxes and buy them toys, and they're the ones who'll survive another big war, in their bunkers and tunnels. So, given things being the way they are, who's to say they're the loonies because they don't do things the way Joe Punter thinks they ought to be done? If they thought the same way as Joe Punter, they'd be Joe Punter, and somebody else would be having all the fun.”
― Iain Banks, quote from The Wasp Factory
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