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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a 1996 novel written by Rebecca Wells. It follows the novel Little Altars Everywhere. In 2005, Wells wrote Ya-Yas in Bloom and then The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood tells the story of the downward spiraling mother-daughter relationship of Vivian Walker and Siddalee Walker.

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

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

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

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

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Variant: I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..
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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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“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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“… 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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“Smoke, drink and never think.”

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

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

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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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