The Reappearance of Rachel Price Quotes

“The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Some hurts were good: friends grew apart, people moved away, they left. It didn’t have to last forever to count. Things ended, this was ending, but that didn’t mean it never mattered.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“People were temporary. It was the one thing you could count on: people always left,”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Shit, yes, now you mention it, I’ve just suddenly remembered everything and solved the entire case, can you believe it? What a plot twist.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Good people didn’t orchestrate their own disappearance, put their families through hell.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“She would have needed a reason, Bel, to go through all that effort. People don’t just decide to disappear. She’d need a motive. A reason.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“The name Rachel Price is almost synonymous with mystery. Because her disappearance was like a puzzle, and it’s human nature to want to solve a puzzle, don’t you think?”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Her twelfth birthday. Story Land. Dad beaming, arms wrapped around her. She picked it up, searched Dad’s eyes. Who was he really, this man? Someone who would leave his daughter alone three hours in the backseat, wet from tears and her own piss because she thought she’d been left all alone in the world again.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“was easy to push people away when you knew how. Bel had a clean record; she was very, very good at it. Making people leave her before they chose to go anyway. Same result in the end, because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Bel forgot, for a moment, that that was her; the first part of her name that she’d amputated years ago. She didn’t know Rachel had called her Anna; no one had ever told her.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“No, you look really great, Rachel,” Sherry continued. “So skinny. I guess sixteen years of captivity is the best diet there is.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Everyone left, eventually. Wasn’t just Rachel Price. People were temporary. It was the one thing you could count on: people always left, even Carter.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Sometimes, even after something terrible, good things can happen to good people.”
― Holly Jackson , The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Got my two girls. My family.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Bel chose Dad. He was her constant, the one who’d never leave.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“No.” Rachel hugged her chest, shielding it. But they were only arms and Bel could break through those. “But he tried to hurt you. I panicked. It wasn’t part of the plan, I just wanted to protect you, keep him away from you. No one touches my daughter.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“You owe him,” Bel said, darkly, lowering her voice. “You owe him, and you know it. You’ve been wrong about him before. Convinced he was the one who killed Rachel. Locked him up, made him face trial. You were wrong and you put him through hell. Here’s your chance to do the right thing. You owe him. Please. Help me find him.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“The trip to Story Land for her twelfth birthday. That photo of her and Dad. They stopped at Taco Bell on the way home, and… The knot twisted, leaving a knife-shaped hole, Bel bleeding around it. Dad had lied to her. All this time. Bel said it was three hours, enough time to piss herself twice, sobbing in the backseat like the world had ended, because part of it had. But Dad told her it had been only fifteen minutes—max—that she was just being silly. Bel had believed him, she’d rewritten the memory in her head, turned it into a funny childhood anecdote.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“The woman stared back at her, like she knew something too. She was Rachel Price. Reappeared.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“maybe she didn’t light up every room, but she lit up every room for me.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Making people leave her before they chose to go anyway. Same result in the end, because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Rachel Price comes home and then a week later Charlie Price takes off. Seems suspicious, don’t it? Don’t tell me you think that’s just a coincidence, thought you were a smart girl.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Yes, I’ve checked everywhere,” Bel said, breathless from explaining. “But—I’m trying to tell you—my dad wouldn’t leave. Trust me. Something has happened to him, something bad.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Charlie and Bel never spoke, even though they’d been given microphones. They were just props, the picture of a reunited family. Happy, but not too much, Dave had told them. It wasn’t a true happy ending until the man was caught.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Did she? More than anything in the whole wide world? Well then, why did she leave Bel behind in the backseat of her car just forty-eight hours later? Disappeared forever. Explain that one.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Guess my fingers are a little fatter than they used to be. It’s engraved on the inside, the date of our wedding: July twenty-third, 2005. Best day of my life …” An empty laugh, to push away the tears. “I like wearing the ring. It’s a little reminder of Rachel, of the life we had together, however short it was. Means she’s still here in some small way.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“She chewed her lip. “Keep flirting with me and you’ll have to marry into that family.” “Wouldn’t dream of it,” Ash swallowed.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price