Reckless Girls Quotes

“Give it time.
Nothing you feel is wrong.
There will always be a before and an after, and you have to learn to live in the after.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“The truth is, when your world is falling apart, you stop having "a thing." You get so focused on just making it though each day that "interests" or "ambitions " kind of go out the window. You definitely don't have time for passions.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“A sort of madness sets in when one is away from society for too long, when one looks out to the horizon and sees only sea and sky.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Plus, it seems cool. To spend a little time off the grid.” She smiles and rolls her eyes. “I know, you’re probably thinking I’ve seen The Beach one too many times.”

“No,” I say, sipping my beer and grinning. “I was thinking you read The Beach too many times. You strike me as a book-before-the-movie kind of girl.”

She clinks her bottle against mine. “Fuck yeah.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“In friendships or relationships, usually one person is the cat—guarded, a little standoffish—someone where you have to work for it. And then the other person is the golden retriever. Loves immediately and completely.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“What am I when you strip everything else away? I’m a motherfucking survivor.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“When grief is still raw, drinking and drugs are a double-edged sword. They can numb you, make you feel the pain less, but they can also crack you wide open, leaving you vulnerable for a flood to come rushing back in when you least expect it.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Sometimes she hates that past version of herself so much she wants to crawl out of her own skin.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“because she worked out that thing, that secret, that takes most people ages to learn—no one really wants you to be yourself. They only want themselves reflected back at them.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“no one really wants you to be yourself. They only want themselves reflected back at them.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Dreams were for people who had choices, opportunities. I didn’t believe I had any of those things.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“There will always be a before and an after, and you have to learn to live in the after.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Isn't it crazy? Men. They worship us, but the second we do something they don't like, we're bitches and cunts.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“that secret, that takes most people ages to learn—no one really wants you to be yourself. They only want themselves reflected back at them.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“how good it would feel to say what she actually thinks—but it would only last for a few moments, and then the regret would set in.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“because if I start regretting one thing, there will be a thousand other decisions to second-guess.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Don’t pick up what you don’t need to carry,” and you actually believe”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“But after the pain, there’s a kind of peace. It’s over now. All of it. She slips under. She doesn’t come back up.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“The truth is, when your world is falling apart, you stop having “a thing.” You get so focused on just making it through each day that “interests” or “ambitions” kind of go out the window. You definitely don’t have time for passions.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“The truth is, when your world is falling apart, you stop having “a thing.” You get so focused on just making it through each day that “interests” or “ambitions” kind of go out the window.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Dreams were for people with money and time, people who didn’t feel hollowed out from watching the only person who loved them die in agony. Dreams were for people who had choices, opportunities. I didn’t believe I had any of those things.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Funny how fast that happened, how easy it was for people I saw every day to fade away, disappear, become nothing more than a bunch of Instagram accounts I still followed.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“that secret, that takes most people ages to learn—no one really wants you to be yourself. They only want themselves reflected back at them. Eliza is very good at doing just that.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“I’d lain in bed thinking that I might have set myself on fire just to burn my dad, but it had felt worth it.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“I’m trying—again—to be the cool girlfriend, who is up for anything. Sometimes I think if I can just keep pretending to be her enough, I’ll eventually become her.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“Amma is right next to me, and I’m struck by a sudden, dark thought. I don’t have to beat the shark, I just have to beat her.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“I can just float right here, literally, in the perfect present. I know it can’t last—this sort of tranquility is meant to be temporary, and I’ve learned the hard way that it’s smarter to always think about that next bend in the road, always be prepared for whatever is coming next.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“You’re with me, babe.” The words warm me even as real fear takes hold. We’re a team. We’re in this together.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls

“A sort of madness sets in when one is away from society for too long, when one looks out to the horizon and sees only sea and sky. —Rambles and Recollections: My Travels in the South Pacific by Lord Christopher Ellings, 1931”
― Rachel Hawkins, Reckless Girls