--- title: "3 Rachel Quotes By Richard Yates" description: "3 Rachel quotes by Richard Yates. Plus more from Richard Yates and more Rachel sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/richard-yates-2840_rachel_rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small_38261.png" --- > [“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small-recurrent-rituals-that-was/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/richard-yates-2840_rachel_rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small_38261.png) > [“Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be something universal about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/rachel-became-slowly-aware-now-even-while-talking-and-listening-to/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/richard-yates-2840_mother_rachel-became-slowly-aware-now-even-whil_388199.png) > [“Rachel came carefully downstairs one morning, in a dressing gown that wasn't quite clean, and stood at the brink of the living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/rachel-came-carefully-downstairs-one-morning-in-a-dressing-gown-that/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e72/richard-yates-2840_friday-morning_rachel-came-carefully-downstairs-one-mor_599552.jpg) ## Other authors on Rachel ## More by Richard Yates > [“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small-recurrent-rituals-that-was/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“In the East, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training but in disciplined search for wisdom and beauty, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/in-the-east-he-then-believed-a-man-went-to-college-not-for-vocational/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/god-knows-there-certainly-ought-to-be-a-window-around-here-somewhere/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away - just because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/and-you-know-what-else-i-used-to-love-i-loved-to-watch-you-get-into/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/if-you-don-t-try-at-anything-you-can-t-fail-it-takes-back-bone-to/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“The movies were wonderful because they took you out of yourself, and at the same time they gave you a sense of being whole.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/the-movies-were-wonderful-because-they-took-you-out-of-yourself-and/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/do-you-know-what-the-definition-of-insane-is-yes-it-s-the-inability/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the grass rug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/it-had-been-easy-to-decide-in-favor-of-love-on-bethune-street-in/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/anybody-s-marriage-might-benefit-from-an-occasional-embargo-on-talk/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/sometimes-in-dreams-there-are-visions-of-the-past-for-that-reason/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“There she was, lying on a single bed in a room so small that there wasn't even space for a chair, and the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/there-she-was-lying-on-a-single-bed-in-a-room-so-small-that-there/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“I grandi libri, come i grandi amici, devono essere condivisi.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/i-grandi-libri-come-i-grandi-amici-devono-essere-condivisi/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/people-did-change-and-a-change-could-be-a-bloom-as-well-as-a-withering/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/hard-work-is-the-best-medicine-yet-devised-for-all-the-ills-of-man/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) > [“You still felt that life was passing you by? Sort of. I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/you-still-felt-that-life-was-passing-you-by-sort-of-i-still-had-this/) [Richard Yates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-yates/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rachel/richard-yates/#itemlist", "name": "3 Rachel Quotes By Richard Yates", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about her, and his very ability to identify so specific a trait made him proud of his own capacity for tenderness.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Yates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small-recurrent-rituals-that-was/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/richard-yates-2840_rachel_rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small_38261.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/richard-yates-2840_rachel_rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small_38261.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/richard-yates-2840_rachel_rachel-was-a-girl-who-depended-on-small_38261.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know…” — Richard Yates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be something universal about the pleasure a grown girl could take in disparaging her mother.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Yates" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-yates/rachel-became-slowly-aware-now-even-while-talking-and-listening-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/richard-yates-2840_mother_rachel-became-slowly-aware-now-even-whil_388199.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/richard-yates-2840_mother_rachel-became-slowly-aware-now-even-whil_388199.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/richard-yates-2840_mother_rachel-became-slowly-aware-now-even-whil_388199.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be…” — Richard Yates", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Rachel came carefully downstairs one morning, in a dressing gown that wasn't quite clean, and stood at the brink of the living room as though preparing to make an announcement. 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