Rebecca Roanhorse Quotes

Words matter,' he says. 'The name you give things, it forms them when you speak. You must always be careful with your words. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

There is a beauty here, a calmness that I savor. I will savor the bloodshed, too, no doubt, but this balance between earth and animal and self feels right. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

I have died many times in many ways. It is not the dying that is so awful, as the knowing that you must awaken alone the next dawn. I am not much of a morning person. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Finn stepped forward immediately. "Used to be a stormtrooper, but now I'm rebel scum," he said, pressing a fist over his heart. "Until the end."
"My point," Poe said, turning back to Agoyo, "is that many of us have dubious beginnings, but it is how we end that counts."
"My father was Darth Vader," Leia said, pitching her voice so that it rang out clearly through the room, "Is there anyone who wants to question my loyalty to the Resistance? ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

He blushed when he saw his ex's name. Monti hadn't thought about him for ages and preferred not to be reminded. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Maybe your resistance is to live. Live big and loud and joyously and fiercely. Live authentic to who you are. Refuse to be silent. Refuse to go away. Refuse stereotypes and limits.
Because you being you is the most powerful kind of resistance of all. (Rebecca Roanhorse) ~ Maureen Johnson

You know people who love you don't hurt you like that," he says, eyes steady on me. "Love's not supposed to try to kill you. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Pumpkin compote in a masa shell," she says. "It's a new recipe I'm going to try this week."
"So, a pumpkin tamale? You know you can just call it a pumpkin tamale. Nobody's going to be impressed because you used some fancy words."
Her mouth turns down. "Thank you for the editorial. Just try it."
I take a bite. It's good. Better than I expected. The balance of cinnamon and nutmeg is perfect, a hint of allspice. And some ingredient I can't place. Almost... coppery? But it works. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Some people believe you destroy your enemies by making them your friends. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

At first his steps dragged, heavy and impossible, but as he realized that losing the datapad meant he had gained a kind of freedom, they lightened. He might be wanted, hunted for the rest of his life, but he would be reborn, somewhere and someone new. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Everything you've done, your past, it's all just a story you tell yourself. Some of it is true, but some of it is lies. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Don't take it the wrong way. I just mean that when something is part of your identity for so long, even if it's not a good thing, it's hard to let it go. Even if maybe you should. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Poe hesitated before he asked, "So the two of you aren't..."
Finn looked puzzled at first, but then his expression shifted to amusement. "No, nothing like that. Just friends."
"And Rose?"
"Oh." Finn shook his head no. "We talked about it, and Crait was... a moment. But that's it. Friends there, too."
Poe laughed. "I can't keep up with your 'just friends,' man. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Rey's face fell, and Leia could see the pain etched there.The girl cared about Ben, and he had disappointed her. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

The First Order is no worse than the Sith, or the Empire, or countless others who would use the dark side. As always, they must be countered with the light. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Leia would never hold someone's past against them. She had enough demons in her family tree to guarantee she was not one to judge. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

The only thing I can think of is the man in front of me. A million questions roll through my mind. I want to run to him and wrap my arms around him, hold on and never let go. I want to sink my knife into his heart and make him suffer like I've suffered. But most of all I want to know why. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Leia studied her face. The girl was close, so close to something big. Bigger than Leia, maybe even Luke, if that was possible. But Leia knew that she wasn't the one to ultimately get here there, that would be someone else. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Oh, me? I haven't slept much these past few days," Rey said quietly. "Too much on my mind. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

Seems anywhere there's a natural resource, there's someone willing to hoard it for themselves to make more money than they can spend. ~ Rebecca Roanhorse

[E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ "The Worst You Ever Feel ~ Rebecca Makkai

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room. ~ Rebecca De Mornay

That thing we call a place is the intersection of many changing forces passing through, whirling around, mixing, dissolving, and exploding in a fixed location. To write about a place is to acknowledge that phenomena often treated separately - ecology, democracy, culture, storytelling, urban design, individual life histories and collective endeavors - coexist. They coexist geographically, spatially, in place, and to understand a place is to engage with braided narratives and sue generous explorations. ~ Rebecca Solnit

He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me. ~ Rebecca Donovan

It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes. ~ Rebecca Stead

Always choose yourself first. Women are very socialized to choose other people. If you put yourself first, it's this incredible path you can forge for yourself. ~ Rebecca Traister

Nearly all of us would like to be at the end of the story, because to live in the middle of it is to live in suspense and uncertainty about what will happen. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Everything seems so possible when I look up at the sky and see the universe gleaming before me. ~ Rebecca Donovan

When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Springtime in Massachusetts is depressing for those who embrace a progressive view of history and experience. It does not gradually develop as spring is supposed to. Instead, the crocuses bloom and the grass grows, but the foliage is independent from the weather, which gets colder and colder and sadder and sadder until June when one day it becomes brutishly hot without warning ... It was fitting, then, that the first people who chose to settle there were mentally suspect. ~ Rebecca Harrington

A full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, beautiful, bossy moon. The kind you want to serve things to on a silver platter. ~ Rebecca Wells

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I took a gulp of air and finally faced the truth-I was in love with Evan Mathews. ~ Rebecca Donovan

While the federal government is required by law to document publicly its wiretapping of phone lines, it is not required to do so with Internet communications. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive. ~ Rebecca Hall

Now King Alexander is driving down the familiar streets, curiously unguarded, in a curiously antique car. It can be seen from his attempt to make his stiff hand supple, from a careless flash of his careful black eyes, it can be seen that he is taking the cheers of the crowd with a childish seriousness. It is touching, like a girl putting full faith in the compliments that are paid to her at a ball. ~ Rebecca West

If I got married one day and settled down, I would love to have more children. ~ Rebecca Ferguson

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits. ~ Rebecca Skloot

Netflix is SO overrated. ~ Rebecca McNutt

Oh, no, no, no," I repeated, shaking my head. The room started to spin, and I couldn't hold my head up any longer. I collapsed back against the pillow. That's when I saw his silhouette at the door. "I'm not supposed to be here," I cried. "I'm not supposed to be in yesterday. ~ Rebecca Donovan

In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to ... Breathe. ~ Rebecca Donovan

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch. ~ The Edge

You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about. ~ Rebecca Goldstein

What we dream of is already present in the world. ~ Rebecca Solnit

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

On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did. ~ Rebecca McNutt

If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you once were, and I love the woman you have become. ~ Rebecca Ross

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence. ~ Rebecca Solnit

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them. ~ Rebecca West

A few minutes later, seemingly out of nowhere, he pointed to the dirt and said, "You know, white folks and black folks all buried over top of each other in here. I guess old white granddaddy and his brothers was buried in here too. Really no tellin who in this ground now." Only thing he knew for sure, he said, was that there was something beautiful about the idea of slave-owning white Lackses being buried under their black kin. "They spending eternity in the same place," he told me, laughing. "They must've worked out their problems by now! ~ Rebecca Skloot

Not a few stories are sinking ships, and many of us go down with these ships even when the lifeboats are bobbing all around us. ~ Rebecca Solnit

For the rest of the afternoon, Rebecca wandered around the house tidying up halfheartedly, feeling bereft and disoriented, trying to balance impassive mass of all the ordinary things of her life with her sense that everything had changed. Inevitably, the weightless moments with Mike began to seem unreal. All her furniture said that love was a bubble and a fluke. ~ Tim Farrington

Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me
happy. ~ Rebecca Stead

That taught me a lesson I've always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft. ~ Rebecca West

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life. ~ Rebecca Pidgeon

I just don't want you to ever not see me. I know so many people see me as nothing more than a tool for pain. But the other side of the coin is when people make excuses for everything I do. They blame it on a tragic past. On what I am. As though WHO you are is defined by WHAT you are. ~ Rebecca Schaeffer

Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it. ~ Rebecca Romijn

... Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution."
"It's alright, I think she wants to be remediated," Alecto told her calmly, though his grief-stricken and depressed expression said more to Mandy than his words did.
"You don't have to forget Cheryl, no matter what Mearth said to you," Mandy pointed out. "People shouldn't be forced to forget what they love, or to just get over the death of what they love. Cheryl was your friend and nobody can make you forget her if you don't want to. ~ Rebecca McNutt

You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when you are eleven, twelve, but every year you see that what you thought you understood a year ago, no, wait it is ten times worse. And your heart fills up with lead. ~ Rebecca Makkai

Welcome to the Dark Side. Are You Surprised We Lied about the Cookies? ~ Rebecca Chastain

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work. ~ Harold Bloom

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live. ~ Rebecca Wells

That's what happens with your first love. It carves a hole in the muscle and fiber, so that you have no choice but to wear it like a birthmark. ~ Rebecca Tsaros Dickson

Our mates are human. And Cara" - his voice dropped to a rumble - "you're mine. ~ Rebecca Zanetti

I must be pretty special to have followed you here but arrived first. ~ Rebecca Hamilton