Quotes by Rebecca Wells

About Rebecca Wells:

Rebecca Wells is an American author who wrote the Ya-Ya Sisterhood series of books, which includes Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, and Ya-Yas in Bloom.
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At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

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Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

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These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.

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Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

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Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

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You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

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Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.

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I live in an ocean of smell…

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As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The ...

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It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

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There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

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The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

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…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

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She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

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What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

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But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

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I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

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Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...

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Zip it kiddo. Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you later in life.

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See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

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Author Bio

  • NameRebecca Wells
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist
  • WorksDivine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood; Little Altars Everywhere