Rebecca Wells citations (28 citations)

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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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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“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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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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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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Rebecca Wells livre Little Altars Everywhere

Source: Little Altars Everywhere

“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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Rebecca Wells livre Little Altars Everywhere

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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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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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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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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“Smoke, drink and never think.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“But all she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“… 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.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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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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“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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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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

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“Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.”

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Source: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Little Altars Everywhere

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“I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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

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“Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.”

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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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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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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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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.”

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Source: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder

“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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“This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Variante: I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..
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“Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Little Altars Everywhere

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“Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.”

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Rebecca Wells livre Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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“Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.”

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Variante: life is short but it is wide. this too shall pass.
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood

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