Constipado Rae Quotes

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. ~ Issa Rae

I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it. ~ Chang-rae Lee

So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade ~ Rae Armantrout

And i have often wondered who,
Who could love you the way i do? ~ Corinne Bailey Rae

My face. The same face I've seen every day since I woke. Every day that I remember. ~ Rae Thomas

There are rules to the game but I don't believe that we need to be bound by them. If it feels appropriate to follow the rules, then by all means, follow them. If it feels better to break the rules, be creative and do it. ~ Anne-Rae Vasquez

There are some fights none of us can win. ~ Amy Rae Durreson

Fred, in the light from the window above, looked for a moment like a newly hatched chick, with his twitchy little head and blinking dark eyes and face open to the world. Birdie felt something like fear then, something ragged and dark lurking just out of sight. Fred could die just like Eleanor did, just like the Wallace boy who'd gone to bed with a headache and died in the night when a blood vessel exploded in his brain. The slimmest margin separated life from not-life. Pastor Hardy boomed on and on. "We must be overcomers ~ Rae Meadows

If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.
If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game. ~ Belva Rae Staples

He peers closer, his hand dropping away. "What happened to your hair?"

"I cut it."

"Why on earth would . . . Oh."

"I'd appreciate it if you kept my secret."

He frowns. "I don't see how anyone with half a mind would mistake you for a boy."

"It's worked so far. I'm strong and I work hard and I ride well."

"Also, you can spit farther than any boy I know."

"And shoot straighter!"

He nods solemnly. "And opine louder. ~ Rae Carson

You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen

I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written." ~ Chang-rae Lee

A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so. ~ Anne-Rae Vasquez

Oh Google, she thought I was suicidal. ~ Rae Mariz

The hair hierarchy rates worth by length and texture of hair. The longer, the silkier and more European your hair, the higher your worth. The shorter, kinkier, and more African your hair? Kill thyself. ~ Issa Rae

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not. ~ Chang-rae Lee

She hadn't seen the mayor come in, though she knew he was behind her somewhere. She could sense the heat of his gaze, her hair prickly, her neck warm. How thrilling it was to feel this way, rattled by his mere presence, wanting only to give in to his pull. But desire was awful, too, full of trapdoors and sharp hooks. ~ Rae Meadows

Ah crap!" I instantly shooed away darkness and whatnot, so that I was solid, visible me again. "Sorry, Stevie Rae. I forgot I'd gone all Bram Stoker. ~ Kristin Cast

Above the sink in the scratched mirror he looked grubby and bloated, his beard a grizzled mess. He knew what these men could never know: A man is who he is. That doesn't change. A thief is a thief. A bad man stays a bad man underneath. He'd been set at seventeen. "You want to end ~ Rae Meadows

My biggest vice when I fall from the tightrope is to attack venomously the one I love the most.
Richard Burton. ~ Rae Earl

Storm explains, "Joyans find Invierno names complicated and incomprehensible."
I glare at him. Storm and I were going to have a conversation about 'complicated and incomprehensible" versus 'over-wrought and inefficient'. ~ Rae Carson

With the geosynchronous orbit, the RAE Table maxes out. It has two answers for the orbital lifetime of a spacecraft in GSO: "greater than a million years" and "indefinite. ~ Trevor Paglen

Yes, I love him. Enough to follow him anywhere. ~ Rae Carson

In America, he said, it's even hard to stay Korean. ~ Chang-rae Lee

I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae ... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the present, thinking about the future that's not here yet? I won't do that anymore. ~ Yoon Mi-rae

If you give up, it's over. But if you press on, you will either discover the rewards of persisting towards your goal or you will learn the lessons and reasons of why it wasn't meant to be. Either way, you win. ~ Leticia Rae

Creativity and expression of one's art can only be measured by the audience to whom it was intended for. Not everyone is going to like my "art" and I don't really care about that. ~ Anne-Rae Vasquez

I'd learned that loving someone, being in love with someone, and being dependent upon someone are three separate things. ~ Rae Hachton

I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short ... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look. ~ Lynne Rae Perkins

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Hector!" He whips around. "You were never, never, going to be just a diversion to me." He sighs, nodding. "That was unfair of me," he says. "I'm sorr - " "And you will kiss me again. That and more. Count on it. ~ Rae Carson

What the hell's wrong with mimosas?' Aphrodite was saying. 'Orange juice is for breakfast.'
'What about the champagne part? That's alcohol,' Stevie Rae said.
'It's pink Veuve Clicquot. That means its good champagne, which cancels out the alcohol part, ~ P.C. Cast

I'm composed largely of what the streets and rooms look like, of how to arrive 'just' here. ~ Rae Armantrout

When life's got you down, keep your head up ... you can't see the ground anyway ~ Nicole Rae

What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers. ~ Rae Earl

And perhaps most I loved this about her, her helpless way, love it still, how she can't hide a single thing, that she looks hurt when she is hurt, seems happy when happy. That I know at every moment the precise place where she stands. What else can move a man like me, who would find nothing as siren or comforting? ~ Chang-rae Lee

And Belen?"
"Yes, Your Majesty?"
Maybe I do want to talk about him. A little. "Humberto would be proud of you, too. He always believed you'd come back to us." Saying his name aloud doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would. Humberto, I practice silently. Humberto.
A soft catch of breath. Then: "He had a way of believing in people long before they believed in themselves, didn't he?"
The entrance to my tent flaps closes, and he is gone. ~ Rae Carson

Kidzero: is free falling. catch me. ~ Rae Mariz

When you get intense, you spark. And you have the kind of hair any man would want to get tangled in. ~ Rae Carson

And though the implication is that I am the sort who is always careful and preparing, I that that's not right, either' in fact I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment, but rather in a lonely dream of an oblivion, the nothing-of-nothing drift from one pulse beat to the next, which is really the most bloodless marking-out, automatic and involuntary. [pp. 320-321] ~ Chang-rae Lee

I felt like I was Cinderella, and these were my glass slippers. Only mine were cowgirl boots. ~ Alicia Rae

We reshape the story even when we believe we are simply repeating it. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Isn't it better that we send them off once and for all beneath the glow of carnival lights, with the taste of treats on our tongues, rather than invite the acrid tang of doubt, and undue longing, and the heart-stab of a freshly sundered bond? ~ Chang-rae Lee