Rebecca Quotes

Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.

Your feelings and emotions are your strongest indicator if your life is moving in a purposeful direction or not, so listen closely to how you feel

Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.

He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.

What's the burn scale?

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden.

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.

The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished.

Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

Beneath the people we think we are, there are funnier, happier, livelier people that we keep ignoring.

You get older, and you make your choices, and one by one the doors shut.

A spider is hardly an excuse to abuse a book.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

I honestly don't think you do, at least not completely. Look, you will always hold a special place in my heart, but I can’t keep competing for a battle that’s already won.

Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.

I think I am going to have to supercharge my optimism to arm myself for the battle ahead. Trust me, it is going to be a battle.

The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.

And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!...

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

Men don't fight for what is theirs. They work for it and they love it with all their hearts. When they do that, they want for nothing.

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

I never gave him a chance to decide if I was worth loving. I'd taken that choice away from him - because I feared what it would be.

That's the thing about freewill: Every decision we make is a choice against something as much as it is for something else.

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!

Reading is a bridge from misery to hope.

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.

I lost my temper, " I finish. "I lost my temper. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.""Well, no one means to lose their temper, my boy, " the Captain smiles. "If they did, it wouldn't be lost.

Is this your girl?" she asks, not waiting for an answer. "She's breathtaking.""You're my new favorite person, " Billie giggles.

Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.

Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.

And she's here. In front of me, smiling at me. Her mouth moves, and I say 'I love you too' because I do, so much more than I thought possible even yesterday.

Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.

I remember the way his eyes pinned my body against the backdrop of Paris as if I was some rare butterfly pinned to an exhibit box.

Skinny-dipping is like Paris. It's always a good idea.

I’m so afraid I’m not worth the breath you gave me…

...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.

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?

...if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.

One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.

He leaned toward me and delicately grazed my lips with his. The tease left me breathless, burning for more. “I keep having to remind myself that I can do that, ” he smirked.

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