Infraction Quotes

“There were no words in the English language to describe how much life it sucked out of a person—how it still hurt, years later, how you still heard that person’s voice and woke up running into the kitchen only to realize that they weren’t ever coming back.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Sometimes, in life, you fall down, you get hit, sometimes you have hard days, days that make you want to quit . . . sometimes your body makes you think it’s time to quit.” He gulped. “But never forget about your heart.” He tapped Marco’s chest lightly with his finger. “The heart is strong. The heart can convince the body of anything. It can convince your mind of anything. Your heart allows you to be whatever you want to be, you just have to trust it.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Living? That will always be the hardest thing you will ever do. It hurts like hell, it’s full of bumps down every road, and you’ll take wrong turns, but it’s a blessing to have the chance to fail in the first place, am I right?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“I choose you, I just need you to choose me back.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Waffle, it's wrong to lie to your Chicken, you know that, right? That's like . . . peanut butter cussing out jelly, just plain wrong.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“I want to know that if someone breaks down that door, I did everything in my power to save myself.

Her eyes shut closed as she whispered, "Because life isn't full of people who are willing to save you - sometimes, all you have is you.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“life isn’t always about the big moments, but the smaller ones that lead up to them, the truly important parts of your life are the ones that you a lot of times want to ignore, they’re the pain, the agony, the anxiety, the bad. But they have a purpose.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“And said something that I’d been dying to hear for the past six years since my mom’s death. “She would be so proud of you.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Life is the main course, son . . . and after life? Well, that’s the dessert, and I’m not showing up to heaven—my dessert—without my fork. Makes absolutely no sense. A man has to be prepared about these things.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“My body is giving up. But my soul is a fighter, so when I leave this earth, I want you to remember that even though my body’s broken, gone, dust, my soul’s free.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Amazing how death sneaks up on a person, how it changes even the shell of the body, making the person unrecognizable, maybe it’s the fact that the soul’s finally releasing its tendrils around the human heart, maybe it’s the soul that gives up first and realizes that this was never the plan, to live with sickness—but to live free from it.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Time. Fuck. I knew the feeling all too well. It was all we had. I never had more time with my mom. And it still traumatized me that she was ripped away before I could have one last meal with her, one last smile.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Which is almost worse. Because at least when you’re sad you can mourn. Sadness you can battle. But anger? Anger we just justify until we’re miserable as hell.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Honey, a father never wants to outlive his kids. This”—he took a deep breath—“is the easy part. Living? That will always be the hardest thing you will ever do. It hurts like hell, it’s full of bumps down every road, and you’ll take wrong turns, but it’s a blessing to have the chance to fail in the first place, am I right?”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction

“Sometimes, all the heart needs to feel better is a reminder that somewhere else, other hearts are still beating despite being mishandled, broken, abused—sometimes, you just need to experience love in its purest form . . . even if that does sound like the most jackass thing to say.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Infraction