116 Quotes by Rebecca Wells

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

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.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

Maybe 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.

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

When I’m reading, wherever I am, I’m always somewhere else.