Abundis Rebecca Quotes

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things. ~ Rebecca Makkai

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. ~ Rebecca Solnit

People in relationships are either flowers or gardeners. Two flowers shouldn't partner; they need someone to support them, to help them grow. ..... There are flowers and gardeners. Flowers bloom; gardeners tend. Two flowers, no tending everything dies. ~ Rebecca Serle

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

Far from being a mere product of evil, the destruction of textual materials was goal-oriented and carefully rationalized within struggles between competing worldviews that wracked the last century. ~ Rebecca Knuth

If there was a common thread between the great warriors and runaways of my Hulkinov ancestors, and my father the pathological expatriate, and me, it was just that: hotheaded self-righteousness. And not the bad kind, either. We actually were right. We just cared more about being right than doing what was right. And we cared more about being right than about our own lives. ~ Rebecca Makkai

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? ~ Rebecca Solnit

I had watched them trade best friends, start wars, cry, trade back, make treaties, squeal and grab each other's arms in this fake-excited way, et cetera ... ~ Rebecca Stead

I think of 'Liar & Spy' as completely different and actually not at all like a 'When You Reach Me'-type story. I feel like 'Liar & Spy' has a much quieter, more emotional revelation. ~ Rebecca Stead

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. ~ Rebecca Harding Davis

It portrayed motherhood as the highest position that a woman could achieve. For God had made Mary neither a prophet nor the messiah nor the daughter of God. Nor did God take the form of a woman. She was only the womb. She was a perpetual virgin too, and she endured the vilest harassment because of it, or so the story went. Rebecca couldn't relate to the Virgin Mary at all. ~ Jeffry R. Halverson

It was easier to hide behind the cover of my books, and I found happiness there. ~ Rebecca Raisin

If I'd waited for you to get your nerve up, it would still be sucking the life force from me. Clean your panties; we're on the hunt again. ~ Rebecca Chastain

The mistake of all the religions is to look outside the world for explanations of the world, rather than rethinking the world itself, so that it offers up its own explanations for itself. The world itself must be self-explanatory. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Everyone has their weaknesses. What defines us is being able to acknowledge them and still find our strengths too. ~ Rebecca Espinoza

People have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love - the deepest kind of love. . . . It's a shame that people all over the world can't have that kind of love in their hearts. . . . There would be no wars, slaughter, or murder; no greed or selfishness. It would be the kind of world that God wants us to have - a wonderful world. - Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows ~ Rebecca Frankel

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is. . . . the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced because you aren't my mom, we don't have kids together - but we do have matching tattoos. ~ Rebecca Traister

All sharks were born swimming. ~ Rebecca McNutt

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. ~ Rebecca West

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist. ~ Rebecca Ferguson

But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up. ~ Rebecca Godfrey

Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?" she exclaimed.
"Of course I didn't. You're my source of gossip, remember? ~ Rebecca Donovan

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. ~ Rebecca De Mornay

To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly. And that the unofficial history of the world shows that dedicated individuals and popular movements can shape history and have, though how and when we might win and how long it takes is not predictable. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain. ~ Rebecca McNutt

so mom got the postcard today ~ Rebecca Stead

What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

i am about castle walls and ivy growing wild ~ Rebecca Cook

Six months later, I was poor, pregnant, and married to a man who read Dogfu**er magazine. ~ Rebecca O'Donnell

She'd really like to engage in sex with him again. He was superb at it. ~ Rebecca Zanetti

The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me. ~ Rebecca McKinsey

...a profound opportunity to embrace impermanence. How those of us who are renters are perhaps in a better position to recognize that our time here on earth is a borrowed gift. That it's not ours to own, though it is ours to relish. That it's still worth beautifying, even though it's temporary. So paint the walls, plant tomatoes in pots on the fire escape, but don't cling. Because eventually we will all be asked to move on. ~ Susan Rebecca White

Beauty in its best form is kindness, the most valuable currency in the world. ~ Rebecca McNutt

In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits of a lifetime of
in her perfect phrase - extreme reading. The voice is a hoot, and it is dead serious. This is writing with exquisite control, fully up to the task Brown takes on of playing a fierce game of beach ball with deep problems of American (and personal) history and identity. ~ Susan Stinson

Sometimes the universe turns off all the lights so we have no choice but to find our own. ~ Rebecca Campbell

... I'm afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important ... it's almost like people want to believe in some illusion that they're robots and forget altogether that they're real, living people ... but everything these days is disposable, even people themselves, and that's why I'm afraid for the world," Mandy confessed, looking depressed and worried.
"So am I ... but I'll still watch all of it as the world dooms itself, because I want to see how it ends, and whether or not they'll be intelligent enough to forget all of this digital illusion afterwards," Alecto explained. "I'm sure that they'll be able to realize how wrong it all is ... even though the idiots outnumber most people these days, there are still enough intelligent people to fight against it. ~ Rebecca McNutt

That night, when you were lying there, broken and barely breathing, I promised. I promised to always love you and that no one would ever hurt you again. ~ Rebecca Donovan

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels ~ Rebecca Solnit

There are other ways women have been made to disappear. There is the business of naming.In some cultures women keep their names, but in most their children take the father's name, and in the English-speaking world until very recently, prefaced by Mrs. You stopped, for example, being Charlotte Bronte and became Mrs. Arthur Nicholls. Names erased a woman's genealogy and even her existence. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I saw a movie once that said that two people in a family aren't enough. ~ Rebecca Salas

I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman. ~ Rebecca West