Rebecca Wells Quotes

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

  Rebecca Wells

  Life, Sisterhood, Inspire

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• 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.

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  Depression, People, Earth

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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

  Rebecca Wells

  Inspirational, Perfect, Good Enough

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

  Rebecca Wells

  Life Is Short, Life Is, This Too Shall Pass

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

  Rebecca Wells

  Heart, Knowing, Missing

  The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ch. 31 (1996)

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

  Rebecca Wells

  Kindness, Car, Stories

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• These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

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  Home, Past, Littles

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.22, Harper Collins

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

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  Friendship, Boat, Harbors

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• 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.

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  Party, Oysters, Shells

  Rebecca Wells (1999). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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

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  Ambition, Anxiety, Want

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

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  Treasure, Sometimes, Lost

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• 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?

  Rebecca Wells

  People, Hopeful, Insane

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• 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.

  Rebecca Wells

  Writing, Glasses, Challenges

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

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  Taken, Mean, Beloved

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• we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

  Rebecca Wells

  Suffering, Mosquitoes, Size

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

  Rebecca Wells

  Sweet, Motherhood, Sisterhood

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• As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.

  Rebecca Wells

  Sweet, Forgiving, Praying

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

  Rebecca Wells

  Remember, Persons

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• 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.

  Rebecca Wells

  Long, Want, Sometimes

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• 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.

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  Pain, Love Is, Broken

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Forget love. Try good manners.

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  Good Man, Trying, Forget

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.26, Harper Collins

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

  Rebecca Wells

  Depression, Girl, Virginity

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• I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

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  Believe, Humble, Done

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

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  Cooking, Used, Knows

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

  Rebecca Wells

  Children, Character, Writing

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