The Seaside Series Quotes

“You think I’m boring, don’t you?”Alec seemed amused as he leaned in closer to me. Exhausted, I laughed and put my hands on my hips, fighting to keep myself from making eye contact. “Yes. But you’re pretty to look at, so as long as someone doesn’t scratch your face off, you’ll always have that!”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“I finally understand what love is. It isn’t rainbows and butterflies. It isn’t always pretty. Sometimes it’s jagged like broken glass, and sometimes it hurts. But love, the type of love that’s real — the love Demetri has shown me — it’s selfless, it’s persistent. Real love pushes your boundaries, it pulls until you snap, and then when you think you can’t take anymore, it’s”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“Pain. Pain makes life beautiful, because if we never had pain, we’d never be forced to grow.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“I’m going to fight for her. I’m going to fight every damn day I have breath in my body, and if I die trying than at least I died loving someone with every part of my soul.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“I want to be your first and your last. I want to be your everything. But I’m willing to wait until you’re ready for this. For this feeling. I want you to memorize it. Memorize life, Alyssa. Because that’s what I want for us. I want for us to”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“Welcome to the land of the living, sweetheart. Everyone’s messed up. It’s what makes us human.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“I won’t leave you alone. I won’t abandon you. I’m sure as hell not going to listen to you, and you can damn well know that I’m going to fight for you.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“When a liar uses words to convince someone to believe them it’s like trying to swim with weight wrapped around your legs. It won’t work. Eventually you’ll tire out and sink.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“Sometimes love can’t be deserved or measured — it can’t be earned. It just is.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“Nobody deserves grace, Demetri. That doesn’t mean we don’t still offer it when given the opportunity.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“People always say blood is thicker than anything. That saying means family is thicker than anything in this world.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“If anyone would have told me that my boring life would turn into what I was currently watching — two rock stars serenading my family on Christmas — I would have laughed. But I guess that’s what makes life special. It’s unexpected. Scary as hell. But in the end, totally worth it.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“You are my little girl. I love you so much. I would do anything for you. You are mine. Do you understand, Natalee? You are my flesh and blood and there is nothing on this Earth that is more important to me.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“Sometimes you gotta let people take the hit. How do you think a quarterback learns how to deal with the fear of getting hit?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set

“We all go through crap, Nat. That’s life. It’s how you react to it that defines the person you grow into.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, The Seaside Series: Boxed Set