Rebecca Rakes > Rebecca's Quotes

“You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”
― A.A. Miline

“Love is more than enough to survive with; its enough to live with.”
― Rachel Higginson, Love and Decay, Vol. One

“At the end of this whole Apocalypse thing, I was petitioning to have action figures made of them.”
― Rachel Higginson, Love and Decay, Volume One

“This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.”
― Rachel Higginson, Love and Decay, Vol. Two

“I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.”
― Rachel Higginson, Love and Decay, Vol. Two

“If love dies, that's when we've all truly died.”
― Keary Taylor, Eden

“In that moment I finally knew.

I knew which one I would grieve over. A piece of me would be missing forever if he was gone. A part of me would break. But I would make it through.

And I knew which one of them I couldn't live without, couldn't take another single breath if he were to be taken away from me.

In that moment I finally understood what love meant.”
― Keary Taylor, Eden

“If anything was home in this wreck of a world it was Avian.”
― Keary Taylor, Eden

“My paper voice.”
― Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”
― Caroline Myss

“As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.

I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret
Is this fragile love
A way
To say
Good-bye”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one.
Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Aren't you afraid?'
'Of what?'
'Of losing yourself.'
'That's what I'm hoping for.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger