The Heiress Quotes

“I hope you never have to watch the one person you love most in the world, the person who loves you just as fiercely in return, lose that love, day by day, bit by bit, a steady draining away until there’s nothing left. Until they’re just a person who sleeps inches from you at night, and eats meals across a table from you, and reads books at your side, even smiles at you or laughs with you, but whose heart has shut you out forever.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“...you can put miles and mountains between you and home, but eventually, home will call you back.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“A haunted house where the ghosts hadn’t had the courtesy to die yet.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“There should be some kind of warning when your life is about to change forever.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“One rarely finds salvation in Florida.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“And if you can’t tell the truth at the end of it all, then what, I ask, is the fucking point?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“A terrible thing, wanting someone and hating them all at the same time.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“The Rockies are beautiful, but they don’t have shit on the Appalachians,”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“He was twenty-five years my senior, and handsome in a bland way—comforting, familiar, will do in a pinch, but nothing to get all that excited about. The saltines and tomato soup of men.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“The truth isn't some finite thing, it's what we all choose to believe.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I had just turned forty, an interesting point in a woman’s life, the age at which she finally begins to feel like she might have finally become the person she was meant to be. I certainly felt that way.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“You had an ancestor who did those things once, and he made so much money that now that money makes money. I suppose this is why some countries eventually round up people like us and cut our heads off.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I didn’t know that for some people, alcohol is the key to a cage inside of them, and inside that cage is a monster.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I've never made a piecrust, actually. Maybe I should learn? Probably too late now. Shocking how soon the "too late now" part of your life arrives. When you're young, there's nothing but possibility, just an endless line of tomorrows, and then you wake up one day and realize that no, you cannot move to Paris on a whim because so many of those old buildings don't have elevators and stairs are hell on your knees now. And besides, you never learned to speak French, and now your brain, once so fresh and spongy and ready to soak up knowledge, feels about as pliable as a peach pit.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Confusing time, one’s twenties.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“This town is officially a Gilmore Girls Wet Dream),”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Are you cringing now, darling? Are you bracing yourself for an old woman to delve into purple prose as she details her sexual awakening? Are your eyes already darting ahead, praying to god you don’t see words like “petals” or “engorged”? Never fear. A lady does not kiss and tell.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Time Brings All Things to Pass.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Just a child stolen from poor parents to replace the one the rich parents had been too careless with.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“An understudy with no role to play.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“you ask me, she just had bad taste in men,” one confidante said. “Duke was reckless, Hugh was stupid, Andrew had always had health issues, and Roddy was a [expletive] basket case. I see where it looks bad, but I promise you, that woman was a saint.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“So, yeah, fucking sue me: when I found out the man I was married to had access to that kind of wealth, but wouldn’t touch it because the family who adopted him was a bag of dicks? I thought, Fuck that, and tried to figure out how to fix it.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“That made him laugh, and if the smile was an arrow to the heart—and other, lower portions of one’s anatomy—then the laugh was Fourth of July fireworks, wonderful, thrilling, the kind of thing that made you want to hug yourself with the sheer delight of it.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“We're made up of many different types of people, is my point. Good ones, bad ones. Most of them, like me, probably fall somewhere in the middle.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“A woman whose head was filled with far darker thoughts than anyone guessed.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Someone who didn't write the first email I'd ever read that actually smelled like Johnnie Walker Black.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“had just turned forty, an interesting point in a woman’s life, the age at which she finally begins to feel like she might have finally become the person she was meant to be. I certainly felt that”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“It was a strange feeling, being caught between two lives.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“I don’t believe in an afterlife—I’m sure you can understand why such an idea is abhorrent to me—but if there is a heaven, and through some mix-up of celestial paperwork I actually got to go there, this moment is where I’d want to spend eternity. Andrew’s hand on my hair, the fire before us, the snow outside, the crackle of pages turning and his soft chuckle in my ear.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

“Shocking how soon the “too late now” part of your life arrives.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress