Diatriba Rae Quotes

I stopped my iTunes festival set because someone fainted at the front. It felt like the right thing to do at the time but maybe I was being too sensitive. ~ Rae Morris

Can't trust a man with only half his teeth, the gentleman agrees. They ~ Rae Carson

He said you could tell about a person not from what he believed, but by what worried him. ~ Chang-rae Lee

My tactic is to make eyes at someone. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen

If you keep running away every time you are scared, then you will do nothing but hide your entire life. Is that really, how a person should live their life? The only way you can get over this fear is by fighting. No matter how scared or afraid you are, you cannot win without fighting. ~ Choi Young-Rae

It's not our place to question God's will, and it is clearly God's will that the two of us become man and wife." It's a testament to my fine character that I don't smash that Bible right into his nose. "You wouldn't know God's will if it tipped its hat and said howdy. ~ Rae Carson

Storm chuckles. Queen, chosen one, horse thief. Let it never be said that you are not accomplished. ~ Rae Carson

I should have let you bust Frank Dilley's nose," I say.

"That would have made things worse," he says.

"But it would have been a pleasure to watch. ~ Rae Carson

Room here," she says, proceeding to draw a line of the route. It doesn't look too far.
I stand, taking the map from her, and manage to get out a comprehensible "Grazie," which my Rick Steves' Phrase Book says is actually pronounced graht-seeay. Who knew? She smiles again and everything seems to be perfect until I lose my mind and give her a slight bow. I'm in Europe, not Asia. ~ Kristin Rae

Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look ... " Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt.
"Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please. ~ Kelley Armstrong

I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. ~ Rae Armantrout

Run, sweetheart, run. ~ Rae Hachton

Weren't you scared?" I ask.
"Yes. But it was a good scared."
"There's a good kind?"
"Oh, yes." Her voice drops so low I have to strain to hear. "Orlin made me scared all the time. Scared I would starve. Scared I would get too cold. Scared he would hurt me again or get so mad he'd throw me to one of the men. That was nasty bad scared." She pauses, scuffing her boots against the floor. "But you never hit me, even though I'm your slave ... You always feed me. You call me my true name. Now when I'm scared, it's not because of meanness. And today, I chose my own scared. It's always a good scared, when you get to pick it your own self. ~ Rae Carson

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Careful, Rae. So careful. Because Cruz will ask. He'll demand every fucking detail, and I'll tell him. ~ Kit Rocha

I need air and light and a kind word. I need my friends. I need Peony.

I need my guns. ~ Rae Carson

Love doesn't exist, you see. It's just another shadowy figure that goes bump in the night. ~ Nikki Rae

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen

Did you already forget how to promise?" I worm my pinkie around his and squeeze.
He squeezes back and lowers our joined hands to the bed. My heartbeat is strong in my ears. Do I pull away first? Do I wait for him to? What if he doesn't? What if we fall asleep like this?
"I promise I don't write mushy, girly stuff," he says. "I just like to keep track of what's going on, you know? The places I go, the things I find. The people I meet."
I could be imagining it, but the hold on my hand seems to be tighter.
"I know one day I'll want to look back," he continues, "and I don't trust my memory alone to remember everything. What's important to me right now might not be later, but that doesn't mean I want to forget it." He yawns and his eyes get watery, tired.
I fight the temptation to yawn myself. "I think you've just made an excellent case for diaries. Maybe I'll start keeping one."
He yawns again and his grip on my pinkie loosens, but we're still mostly hooked together. "It looked like you already were," he says in a fading whisper. His eyes drift closed.
I stare at his relaxed face, pale in the dim light. Nearly asleep, he looks vulnerable. Like I could tell him anything I wanted and he wouldn't remember it in the morning.
When I first met him, I thought he was attractive but not in an omg-he's-the-most-gorgeous-thing-I've-ever-seen way. But somehow, now that I know him, how his light brown eyes can sear right through me, how the corner of ~ Kristin Rae

In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion. ~ Melanie Rae Thon

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy. ~ Issa Rae

He Who Wafts Gently with the Wind Becomes as Mighty as the Thunderstorm. ~ Rae Carson

Why don't people understand that nobody wants to hear what they should have done when something has already happened? ~ Issa Rae

Are you sure? I know you're all grown up, but you're still only seventeen. There are a lot of fish in the sea," he says as we pull into the driveway.
"I know, but I really like this fish. ~ Leah Rae Miller

I really am crazy about you. Every second I spend with you is better than the one before, but I honestly don't know how that works, because how the hell can you improve on perfection? But you do all the time. You just amaze me. ~ Isabelle Rae

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance. ~ Rae Foley

Proscenium of nearly identical mountain ridges, arched out and downward, one 'after' another, to the valley floor: curtains tied back, a gesture ~ Rae Armantrout

You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you. ~ Rae Smith

As a country that is less than a superpower, Canada cannot rely on its muscle to make itself heard. Our influence comes from a capacity for wisdom, from being a trusted source of information, knowledge, and judgement on some of the most difficult issues facing the world. ~ Bob Rae

You can't spend your life being afraid of what other people think ~ Leah Rae Miller

Your life is the people who fill it," Mel says. "And nothing's good without them. ~ Kayla Rae Whitaker

Her Skywalker legacy would go to Rey, Organa to Poe, and she would try one last time to pass her Solo legacy to her son. ~ Rae Carson

Yes, well, everyone is ignorant when it comes to their own life and love. ~ Rae Carson

I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in. ~ Rae Meadows