Beach Girls Quotes

“Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“All I know is we're 16 and ready to be kissed, kissed kissed.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Stevie thought about how people have to find their own ways to the light. People take as long as they take, and there wasn't any use trying to rush them.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“You can't change the way he feels,” the doctor said. “But you can change the way you react to what he says and does. You have power over that, Madeleine. His emotions don't have to dictate your responses.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“You're having what Saint John of the Cross would call ‘a dark night of the soul,'” Aunt Aida said. “Follow it through, darling. Try to abide with the feelings, and know that you're being shown something you've never seen before. Have faith that morning will come.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“artists look at what is, what they can see, and they draw it. Poets never trust the surface. They learn to look beneath, and to trust what they can't see.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“poetry requires a different kind of view, one where you look inside.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Rigidity of thought is a trap too many of us fall into. . . .”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“I therefore defer to the woman in the front row. ‘Heart' is also correct. In that, the body of any creature is a road map for all of its experiences, and therefore the sound of Aptenodytes foresteri's call is imprinted upon its mate's heart.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“there was a fold between them—a wrinkle in their relationship, in their universe—and it was big, and came between them.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Children abandoned by the universe—and that was how it felt to those whose mothers went away or died young—always spent their lives seeking perfect, intense union. Anything less felt like a failure. Stevie thought about all the pain that quest had caused herself and others.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Stevie wanted to find the right words, to comfort the child. She wanted to ask what had happened to Emma. But she felt constrained, afraid she would say something wrong. Her own mother had died when she was young, and she remembered a world of adults who meant well but just seemed to make everything worse.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“what would it be like—to see the world like that? To love nature and people in such a pure way that it would never occur to her to ask what they could do for her? Emma knew that Stevie was terribly vulnerable—things made her cry so easily.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“She was a true paradox—so solitary, but with intense need for connection with the people she loved most.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls