Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it? Rebecca Wells More Quotes by Rebecca Wells More Quotes From Rebecca Wells It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride. Rebecca Wells sisterhood inspire life Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time. Rebecca Wells good-enough perfect inspirational 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. Rebecca Wells earth depression people Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible. Rebecca Wells harbors boat friendship Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass. Rebecca Wells this-too-shall-pass life-is-short life-is I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. Rebecca Wells anxiety ambition want These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out. Rebecca Wells home littles past I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. Rebecca Wells car stories kindness 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. Rebecca Wells glasses challenges writing You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is? Rebecca Wells hopeful insane people What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. Rebecca Wells over-the-edge tales years I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone. Rebecca Wells done humble believe I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment. Rebecca Wells writing character children I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl. Rebecca Wells creativity girl mother 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. Rebecca Wells shells oysters party 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. Rebecca Wells pain broken love-is the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine. Rebecca Wells skills heart book Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you. Rebecca Wells used cooking knows How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be. Rebecca Wells sisterhood motherhood sweet Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed. Rebecca Wells treasure lost sometimes
