Nora Raleigh Baskin Quotes

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.
But I might feel lucky this day and avoid the sticks and branches scratching and pulling at me.

You can not know any better and still know you don't like something" -Ruby

There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away.

Anger sends out a strange energy, like a force field in a science fiction movie. It repels. It destroys.

It's not about what makes you feel better or worse. If it's the right thing to do and you know it, you should do it.

He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?

Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do.
And if you don't
If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel.
And then they make the assumption
That you must not feel anything at all.

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him

You could do anything, anything you want with your life.

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.

Sometimes there is nothing to hold me together.

Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems.

But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.

These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.

...but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

When two people are destined in heaven to be together, they are complete, and the repairing of the world can begin

Know how to live with the time that is given you.

What was costly was not the shot but coming back without good pictures to choose from. The light was perfect, orange gray, casting long shadows. The city seemed to reveal more the darker it got.