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“Life isn’t fair, but living? Living is heaven. Living is a gift. Every gift is different — every path is different — for some reason this is ours, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can stop crying and start living.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Ruin

“Welcome to the Mafia, blood in, well isn’t that just shitty part, there is no freaking out.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Elicit

“Hell, I was her demon. And now I was wiping her tears and holding her close. I was no saint. I was the darkness that chased her. I was what haunted her dreams, I was her nightmare, and yet she held me like I was the knight that had ridden in on my white horse—she was right about one thing— the horse was white, but the knight was no servant to the king —he was fallen , and she’d singlehandedly resurrected him, not realizing something was very wrong.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Scandalous Prince

“Forgive me—” I whispered into the cool night air “— for showing you the knight, when the whole time, I was the wolf. Forgive me, God. Forgive me. Amen.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Scandalous Prince

“How I spend my time is my right -- but in the end, it still affects those I don't leave time for. There's a yin and yang in life. But people seriously don't ever realize it until it's too late.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“Forgiveness is never given in order to make peace with the offender. It’s given to make peace with yourself.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Elude

“And that’s how life is measured — not by the length, but by the strength of those moments spent together.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Elude

“Control what you can, love what you can, and the rest, well...the rest was just the rest.”
― Rachel Van Dyken

“Unfortunately, the thing about running, the thing about trying to start over — eventually that hope is dashed by your past coming up to greet you like the fires of hell”
― Rachel van Dyken, Shame

“Every damn breath hurt like hell, but I kept Breathing too. I told myself it would be a privilege to breathe through pain like that for the rest of my life - just knowing each breath was a gift.”
― Rachel Van Dyken

“When you’re the one who causes the pain, you do everything in your power to make it better.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Eulogy

“So the angel sang the devil to sleep..." he whispered, closing his eyes."...at the risk of her own damnation.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Eulogy

“The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.”
― Ved Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder