Rachelle Ayala > Rachelle's Quotes

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“These holes are our sins. And the waves are God’s love, washing away our sins.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Hidden Under Her Heart

“When your dreams turn into a nightmare, it’s time to wake up.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Hidden Under Her Heart

“Some call it energy, some say it’s spirit, but I believe it’s the love that people share that keeps them connected, even after death.”
― Tallulah Grace, Cliffs of Starsdale

“Maybe He’s already given you a miracle. You just can’t see it.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Christmas Stray

“God does not make mistakes. What He says He will do, He will.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Michal's Window

“Peace for Israel,” he said.
“Is that possible?” I drew closer.
“Yes, if we have peace with God first.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Michal's Window

“You are truly the most expensive girl in all God’s creation. And the most precious.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Michal's Window

“Discomfort is often a door opening to growth.”
― S.P. Sipal

“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly.”
― Julie McElwain, A Murder in Time

“You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modern ink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. But when you push an inkstick along an inkstone, you take the first step to cleansing your mind and your heart. You push and you ask yourself, What are my intentions? What is my heart that matches my mind?”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The best revenge is massive success.”
― Frank Sinatra

“The bar lights glittered on the wet pavement, and jazz wailed out of the open doors of the bars, collinding with the more discordant, driving beats coming from the strip joints, where bored-looking dancers, both male and female, gyrated their hips and humped poles and pretended to be sexy.”
― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell

“Furthermore, if I lost my soul, I’d adapt. I always do. Adaptation is my specialty. I practically invented the word.”
― Karen Marie Moning, High Voltage

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“Plot is, I think, the good writer's last resort and the dullard's first choice.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith.”
― Linda Howard, After the Night

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“In some of us there’s a fire that burns too brightly. It makes us feel things differently, painfully—even great joy. To feed that fire too often, to make the flames too strong is to destroy yourself. Ye burn and burn and burn. ’Tis too painful to live that kind of life. Yet ’tis beautiful, too. Too beautiful for words or thought, too beautiful to look upon. Ye can climb to the heavens on the colors of those flames, but ye can also fall into darkness without end.”
― Kathryn Lynn Davis, Too Deep for Tears

“Love has no mercy. It’s a sweet and deadly trap,”
― Rachelle Ayala, Axe

“You shouldn’t wait too long to open your gift. Even if love is forever, the man’s body has an expiration date.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Axe

“I can’t wrap up a pebble, tie it with a bow and tell you it’s a diamond. I can’t tell you it’s all good, or that it happened for a reason. But I can tell you that I’d rather experience being with you through all your pain and difficulties, than being without you.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Nick

“That’s good, Marcia, because sometimes I wonder if you don’t realize just how much I love you.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Playing Without Rules

“Lamentations 3:26 - It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”
― Rachelle Ayala, Your Daily Bible Verse: 366 Verses Correlated by Month and Day