Rachel Quotes

I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.

Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.

"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity.

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.