Rebecca Wells Quotes

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

Forget love. Try good manners.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

...you do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number.

Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...

Good Lord didn't mean for us to hate ourself. He made us to love ourself like He do, with wide open arms.

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

I live in an ocean of smell…

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.