Rebecca Lim > Quotes

“My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.”
― Rebecca Lim, Mercy

“We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.”
― Rebecca Lim, Muse

“If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.
There’s nothing I can keep with me that will stay.
I must always re-establish ties.
I must tread carefulle or give myself away.
I must survive.
I must keep moving, but I don’t know why.”
― Rebecca Lim, Mercy

“You're my compass, remember? You're here to light my way in the darkness of this world.”
― Rebecca Lim, Fury

“You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it that I want what you want? I’ve spent an eternity feeling powerless. Love did that to me — robbed me of all control. I never expected to feel this way again. I don’t want to feel.’
‘Neither did I,’ Ryan rasps, ‘because feeling anything at all was dangerous. If I let myself feel, then maybe I’d have to believe what everyone was saying — that Lauren was dead. But from the moment I laid eyes on “Carmen, you kept getting under my skin. At first, all you did was irritate the hell out of me, bailing me up that way outside my house, inviting yourself along for the ride when all I wanted was to be left alone. But that irritation turned into curiosity, which turned into something else, becoming this chain of, of … feeling that brought me here. I dropped everything for you. I veered left. And I’d do it again in a second. That’s what “feeling” does. It tells you you’re alive, it gives things … I don’t know, proper meaning. You’re still trying to maintain some veneer of independence? Toughness? Do words like that even apply to you? But I see through it, Mercy. I see through you. You’re not that different from me after all, under your armour. Crumbs, Mercy, that’s all I’m after. Just crumbs. It’s not a lot to ask for.”
― Rebecca Lim

“I can’t be responsible for losing you, the way I almost lost you tonight."
The sense of vertigo is so bad now that Ryan seems fuzzy, as if I’m seeing him through a veil of light.
‘You’re already responsible,’ Ryan implores. ‘I’m a marked man. I could see it in his eyes when he looked at me. With you, or without you, I’m marked for death. And I’ll take my chances with you. In
any life, given the same choice, I would choose you. Are you hearing me?”
― Rebecca Lim

“It's aiming for the peaks,' I tell him, 'and swimming through the troughs so that there are moments where you can just float under the sun and see how far you've come.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“I never forget the remainder. The remainder is the most important part, Henry Xiao, because the whole wouldn't be whole again without it!”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“If I was a boy, life would be different. Life would undoubtedly be better. The universe would be in perfect balance. I wouldn't be a walking daily reminder of something missing, some king of lack.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“I'm good enough to at least try. I haven't given up on trying yet. If they laugh at me, and it ends in nothing? I will try something else. I will never stop trying.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“The way I see it? You are what you are, so deal with it.”
― Rebecca Lim, Mercy

“What is spoken of outside is not welcome inside, and vice versa. There are two spheres that must never meet, orbiting politely at a distance. With me in the middle, caught in the heavy gravity, slowly tearing apart.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“is a blur of chopping, stirring, ladling and straining, her spatula repeatedly striking the surface of the smoking wok like the hooves of a mythical beast striking an iron roadway. She finally turns off the exhaust fan over”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“Action, consequence”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“...and you're not taking food out of your mouth to put into his! He's not one of our people.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“Action, consequence.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter