Rachel Quotes

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

I asked for your heart and you gave me a stone.

I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul

Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away.

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last."-George from If We Kiss

Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do forlove.Myrnin.

Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make in your life.

Run first, ' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

But this room looked like it had been decorated by the unholy lovechild of Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake.

When someone tells you somebody’s been murdered, laughing is probably not the best response. You know, for future reference.But laughing is exactly what I did.

Um...Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed--

I had no desire to hear another woman tell my boyfriend how hot he was. If I wanted him to know, I'd damn well tell him myself.

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better.""Define BETTER with that guy.""Not all fangs and raaaaar.

Sure, ” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?”Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, ” she said.

Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!""You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome,

See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!""Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”“I hardly think there’s any chance of that, ” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

Why is this so hard?” I whispered.His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. “Everything worth fighting for is hard.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.