Rebecca Quotes

I'll see you soon, " I think as I fall, hoping she can hear me. It's as good a last thought as any, and I hold it close like a light in the darkness.

Just because words come out of somebody's mouth doesn't make them true.

God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time.

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance.

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.

Still there are some, braver and more valiant than their peers, who face their demons head on, staring defiantly into the shadows, demanding forgiveness.

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

...grief had no mercy, time limit, or expiration date.

Sometimes I guess it just feels better to know that you have someone to help you when you can’t even help yourself. ~ Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.' 'In the way of what?' 'In the way of what's true.

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.

This love is so deep it cannot be undone.

Rui bit out something raw and primitive. He raised his head and she saw his animal in his eyes, a rich, wild gold, and then the room spun and she was on the mattress, his big body covering hers...

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn’t catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don’t.

This girl is magic. She's wild incantations. She's that spark that lit me back to life and I'm burning for her.

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep

Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.

Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

The key to living a purposeful life lies in identifying how best you can be a vehicle for God's divine love and light.

No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man.

Womanly Power: Hurting a man and then making him apologize.

Don't do anything stupid, they said. Well, it's now or never, I suppose, and stupidity and confidence run a fine line.

By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.

Have you ever gotten to a point where you looked at your own life, thought "Fu** this, " and reached for the economy-sized Valium? Ah, suicide. So dark and seductive.

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

He told m the best advice he could ever give me is all in this book. We need God's constant help and blessings. Both are in the pages of the Bible.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Sometimes, ’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.

The kiss was so soft she couldn’t believe this was the same bad boy who’d said such things to her with that mouth.

Her fingers traced his stomach, trying to remember this is real, this is real with each strike of her heart.

Moving on was going to require leaving the woods and getting a friend set that didn’t have gray hairs, hip replacements and a few false teeth.

Night had come and eaten everything.

He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to see a world he didn't even know existed.

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.

How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so many other things, it is a language problem.

the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.