Rebecca Wait > Quotes

“First, there are the people with no particular agenda, who will take their cue from you, who will wait quietly to learn who you are. Then there is the other group, the people who will not wait, but who conjure up a personality for you out of odds and ends of their own: some bits of you, certainly, but mixed liberally with scraps of their own needs and prejudices.”
― Rebecca Wait, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

“She might have said, too, how strange it was that you only noticed normality after it ended, that by its nature it was invisible as long as you were in it.”
― Rebecca Wait, Our Fathers

“What do any of us do in the end except what we believe is right at the time, without having all of the information, without knowing how things will turn out? We leap into the darkness with our only protection our idea of what is right, and who can ask more of us than that?”
― Rebecca Wait, Our Fathers

“I think we just forget when we're older all the hard things about being a child. I remember feeling anxious a lot of the time. It's not always true that children are happier than adults. Even if you had a nice childhood.”
― Rebecca Wait, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

“This is one moment, but know that another shall pierce you with a sudden, painful joy.”
― Rebecca Wait, The Followers

“I think wet use forget when we're older all the hard things about being a child. I remember feeling anxious a lot of the time. It's not always true that children are happier than adults. Even if you had a nice childhood.”
― Rebecca Wait, I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

“The memory was in broken pieces, but the fragments were strung together by the feeling of cold that accompanied them, the icy shiver going through him, through him and through him, and the world seeming to slant and go into slow motion as in a nightmare.”
― Rebecca Wait, Our Fathers

“What do any of us do in the end except what we believe is right at the time, without having all of the information, without knowing how things will turn out? We leap into the darkness with our only protection our idea of what is right, and who can ask of us than that?”
― Rebecca Wait, Our Fathers