Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”
“I try to believe," she said, "that God doesn't give you more than one little piece of the story at once. You know, the story of your life. Otherwise your heart would crack wider than you could handle. He only cracks it enough so you can still walk, like someone wearing a cast. But you've still got a crack running up your side, big enough for a sapling to grow out of. Only no one sees it. Nobody sees it. Everybody thinks you're one whole piece, and so they treat you maybe not so gentle as they could see that crack.”
“Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…”
“life is short but it is wide. this too shall pass.”
“She longed for porch friendship, for the sticky, hot sensation of familiar female legs thrown over hers in companionship. She pined for the girliness of it all, the unplanned, improvisational laziness. She wanted to soak the words 'time management' out of her lexicon. She wanted to hand over, to yield, to let herself float down the unchartered beautiful fertile musky swamp of life, where creativity and eroticism and deep intelligence dwell.”
“Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.”
“She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.”
“But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.”
“I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..”
“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?”
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