Rae Wetzel > Rae's Quotes

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“We may not get do-overs in life, but we can always have fresh starts and new beginnings.”
― Emily Giffin, The Lies That Bind

“After all, you reach the mundane, comfortable moments only when a relationship is working. When it’s not working, the passion morphs into something twisted and dark. Drama. Jealousy. A never-ending power struggle.”
― Emily Giffin, The Lies That Bind

“That nothing can be real when marred with so many lies.”
― Emily Giffin, The Lies That Bind

“She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I...well, I didn't do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.'

They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Page 147: Ellie gazed up at me, her eyes radiating happiness, anticipation, and the ultimate contentment of a child who’s well loved.”
― Billy Romp, Christmas on Jane Street: A True Story

“... but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.”
― Susanna Tamaro, Follow Your Heart

“The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. They either help us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves or encourage us to become lesser versions of ourselves. We become like our friends. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people around them help to make them great.
We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves.”
― Matthew Kelly

“We become the books we read.”
― Matthew Kelly

“We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.”
― Jill Bialosky, House Under Snow: A Gripping Literary Family Drama – Women's Coming of Age Story of Betrayal

“That's why I'm compelled to tell this story - don't we all have one secret that has shaped us we are burning to reveal? - to convince myself that I'm entitled to my own life.”
― Jill Bialosky, House Under Snow: A Gripping Literary Family Drama – Women's Coming of Age Story of Betrayal

“Maybe secrets are only told when you're trying to protect the real truth from coming out.”
― Jill Bialosky, House Under Snow: A Gripping Literary Family Drama – Women's Coming of Age Story of Betrayal

“There is no explaining this simple truth about life: you will forget much of it.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake