Rebecca > Rebecca's Quotes

“Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
― Mary Oliver

“I read my books with diligence, and mounting skill, and gathering certainty. I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays