Rebecca Quotes

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

I just believe that marriage is a beautiful representation of God's love for us and that there is such a cherishing that can happen in marriage that is different from any other relationship.

If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

When husband and wife are united, they are strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.

Most people have to date or court other people before they meet the one.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

I think the only fear that I have in getting married is what if I'm not enough or what if I'm not prepared enough, because I'm the kind of person that likes to be prepared.

There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

I love a book that makes me ask questions about what I think or how I see the world or how I feel, so I hope that 'Goodbye, Stranger' is that kind of book for some people.

I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me -- happy.

Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.

I definitely need coffee all the time. I drink probably four or five cups a day.

I usually keep a bottle of whiskey. I'm not a big drinker, but I feel like it's important to have.

I can't live without scissors. I don't have any tattoos, but I thought if I ever got a tattoo, it should probably be scissors.

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.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

Forget love. Try good manners.

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.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.