Rebecca Wells

I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is…

— Rebecca Wells

“Of all the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood the most divine was humor.”

— Rebecca Wells

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something…

— Rebecca Wells

“Life is short, but wide.”

— Rebecca Wells

“The happiness in her eyes made my heart hurt.”

— Rebecca Wells

“You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk…

— Rebecca Wells

“In the crook of the crescent moon sits the Holy Lady, with strong muscles and a merciful heart. She kicks her her…

— Rebecca Wells

“The words shot through Vivi's bones and blood and muscle, and her body relaxed, so that when her feet touched the ground…

— Rebecca Wells

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…

— Rebecca Wells

“Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and…

— Rebecca Wells

“sadness usually does, as soon as I sat down and began to listen. The small press had a correspondingly”

— Rebecca Wells

“What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you…

— Rebecca Wells

“I was stupefied. Had she once been a star and her bright burning had dimmed? Maybe because she had us? Or had…

— Rebecca Wells

“The notes danced through the June air; Vivi could feel them dust her hair and shoulders. She could feel the notes enter…

— Rebecca Wells

“Don’t think this means I’m giving you all my secrets. There is more to me than you will ever know.”

— Rebecca Wells

“Taking out the journal she’d packed, and intending to make some preproduction notes on The Women, Sidda began to write instead about…

— Rebecca Wells

“Sidda was tired of being vigilant, alert, sharp. She longed for porch friendship, for the sticky, hot sensation of familiar female legs…

— Rebecca Wells

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

— Rebecca Wells

“Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans. -- Wade Coenen in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”

— Rebecca Wells

“Once the scent caught me on the street in Greenwich Village. I stopped in my tracks and looked around. Where was it…

— Rebecca Wells

“Nothing picks me up quicker than a movie, a Coca-Cola, and a box of popcorn. I could walk in feeling like I…

— Rebecca Wells

“far as I knew. Never thought one way or the other when Mama used to take her “naps” in the middle of…

— Rebecca Wells

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that…

— Rebecca Wells

“[T]he right way to pray is not to beg, but to picture good things, to banish all bad things from our mind.”

— Rebecca Wells

“Sidda looked like she could not have been born from my body. This was the first time I ever felt that she…

— Rebecca Wells