Becca Ritchie > Becca's Quotes

“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
― James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy

“Oh, the cleverness of me!”
― James M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.”
― Lena Coakley, Witchlanders

“I allow myself to be right here, in the moment, savouring the peace. All the millions and millions of stars remind me, too, how small and fragile I am. And unimportant, really. If this branch were to creak and moan and break under my weight, and I were to plummet to the ground, the stars in the sky would continue to decorate the world. And even if the last tree disappears from our planet, the stars will still be up there.”
― Sarah Crossan, Breathe

“I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.”
― Krista Ritchie, Ricochet

“Beginnings are the hardest because they’re the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out.”
― Krista Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
― Flannery O'Connor