Top 100 Rae's Quotes
#1. Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why don't you try a more subtle approach."
"I demand you tell me your troubles," I said to my sister.
"You're not as funny as you think you are," Rae replied.
Lisa Lutz
#2. You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#3. One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#4. Oh, yeah, looks like things have been super easy for you this far. Look, high school is hell for most people. It's one of the many facts of life. But I had friends. I was happy with who I was, and I'm happy with who I am now.
Leah Rae Miller
#5. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.
Rae Earl
#6. Storm leans towards her and says in a teaching voice, "Joyans consider it is rude to express one's true opinion unless it is unequivocally flattering."
Her brow furrows. "Then how do the express anything at all?
Rae Carson
#7. Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#8. I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.
Issa Rae
#9. I know I'm just an accessory to him, but what he doesn't realize is he's just a handbag to me, too.
Leah Rae Miller
#10. Somewhere, rational Sophie is thinking that it's not such a good idea to let my guard down so much, the not so rational one just wants to act normal, have fun, and punch the rational Sophie in the face.
Nikki Rae
#11. It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.
Chang-rae Lee
#12. Who are you when you're alone? When no one is watching? What's left then?
Rae Mariz
#13. I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.
Chang-rae Lee
#14. Maybe you could heal her? You're the one who loves her."
"I don't know how to heal."
"What you mean is you're too afraid to try."
His face turns thoughtful. "Yes, that's exactly what I mean.
Rae Carson
#15. Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.
Rae Carson
#16. Make no mistake," Enrico says finally. "I never would have accepted your application were it not for the King's order. I expect you will be expelled within the month."
His forthrightness makes me bold. "I expect you will be surprised, my lord.
Rae Carson
#17. You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.
Issa Rae
#18. What the hell's wrong with mimosas?' Aphrodite was saying. 'Orange juice is for breakfast.'
'What about the champagne part? That's alcohol,' Stevie Rae said.
'It's pink Veuve Clicquot. That means its good champagne, which cancels out the alcohol part,
P.C. Cast
#19. As a child,
I was abandoned
in a story
made of trees.
Here's the small
gasp
of this clearing
come "upon" "again
Rae Armantrout
#20. Color Vision Deficiency isn't the end of the world. It's just a different view of it.
Karen Rae Levine
#21. It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.
Issa Rae
#22. A plan will wait until we've camped for the night," I say.
From habit, I turn to look for Hector, seeking his quiet approval. I don't catch myself until it's too late, until I've lost him all over again.
Rae Carson
#23. Creativity and expression of one's art can only be measured by the audience to whom it was intended for. Not everyone is going to like my "art" and I don't really care about that.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#24. We're tying off string at the edge of Hampton's claim when I notice Jefferson staring at me. "You don't have to watch my eyes," I grumble. "When I sense gold, I'll tell you straight."
"That's not why I'm looking," he replies, and Hampton fails to keep the grin from his face.
Rae Carson
#25. I don't want to worry anymore thinking about the future. Mi Rae ... 'Mi' meaning not yet. 'Rae' meaning coming. Why should I decide on the present, thinking about the future that's not here yet? I won't do that anymore.
Yoon Mi-rae
#26. A sense of mission lost
in ink's
jagged outcrops.
I was trying to tell myself
what I must have known
before
in a form
I wouldn't recognize at first.
Rae Armantrout
#27. I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
Chang-rae Lee
#28. Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
Carly Rae Jepsen
#29. In America, he said, it's even hard to stay Korean.
Chang-rae Lee
#31. But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.
Bob Rae
#32. I get so breathless, when you call my name,
I've often wondered, do you feel the same?
There's a chemistry, energy, a synchronicity
When we're all alone.
Corinne Bailey Rae
#33. Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
Chang-rae Lee
#34. Arina's face goes blank at his words, her brow smooth as butter.
Rae Carson
#35. Being a rollerblader for Jesus isn't a dream. It's a goal.
Rae Nell, "Rollerblader for Jesus
Ellen Morris Prewitt
#36. My Heart's still beating for you - Very Dark and Always.
Rae Hachton
#37. Do you really like him?" She puts her hands on her hips.
"I really, really like him."
"Wow, that's a lot. Okay, I'll help, but only because Logan still really, really likes you, too.
Leah Rae Miller
#38. Just one pit stop, Rae. One pit stop that won't even take an hour. Then it's over. It's finally over.
Yawatta Hosby
#39. How do women all know what to do with babies? It's like they have their own special kind of sorcery.
Rae Carson
#40. The kind of love we share never dims or fades." He brushed his lips along mine. When my breath caught, he whispered, "It's the kind of love that lasts forever.
Alicia Rae
#41. Or maybe another baby might have helped us. Another try. Of course, that's the worst reason to have a child, anyone on the street can tell you that, because no one can handle being an attempt at something from the very start, (1998: 200)
Chang-rae Lee
#42. You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.
Patricia Rae
#43. I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#44. There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.
Rae Foley
#45. For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it's when we're closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we'll tread through any flame.
Chang-rae Lee
#46. Here's a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead. I've been there, done that, and got the frickin' T-shirt. - Stevie Rae
P.C. Cast
#47. And while it's easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn't this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?
Chang-rae Lee
#48. I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what you've done before.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#49. I can be such a horrible person sometimes. But I think we all are underneath. Sometimes. I only say bad things here. Never to people's faces. I've had that much crap said to me I don't want anyone sitting in their bedroom feeling shit because of me.
Couldn't live with that.
Rae Earl
#50. The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.
Rae Armantrout
#51. Every place there's people, there's badness.
Rae Carson
#52. But look at it this way," Stevie Rae broke in. "Aphrodite figured it out. So are you sayin' she's smarter than you?"
Kramisha's eyes narrowed."I got a whole world of smart than that rich white girl don't know nothin' about."
"Well than cowboy up.
P.C. Cast
#53. Suicide doll's suicide
Pretty, but with death there's no way to hide
Afraid to make a cut, see there's nothing inside
If your friends told you to jump off a bridge
You'd step to the edge and fly.
._.
Rae Mariz
#54. For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#55. It was fine. I'm getting real tired of that word. It's a nothing word, and when people say it, it never really means what it's supposed to.
Leah Rae Miller
#56. There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.
Chang-rae Lee
#57. Canada's political parties spend a few years in opposition and then govern as if it's permanent payback time.
Bob Rae
#58. Words. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death.
Rae Carson
#59. We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.
Kristin Cast
#60. Did you just blackmail the game master?"
She shrugs. "A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.
Leah Rae Miller
#61. I cover his hand with my own: "The Champion must not waver," he says in my ear. "Yea, though SHE pass through the shadow of darkness, SHE shall not fear, for God's righteous right hand shall sustain her and give her new life triumphant.
Rae Carson
#62. His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie's don't-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#63. No matter how much you really think you know and love a person, you can never, ever, really know what's going on in their head? That they can hurt you worse than anything in the world because of the fact that you love them?
Nikki Rae
#64. I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
Issa Rae
#65. Who wasn't either bored or troubled with their own story and only too happy to leap into someone else's? It further confirmed her motto: Reality sucks. Make-believe rocks.
T. Rae Mitchell
#66. Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.
Chang-rae Lee
#67. Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair.
Yoon Mi-rae
#68. I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing."
"It's insane," he says, but without vehemence.
"It's faith," I say.
Rae Carson
#69. No one is going to abduct me, Rae." "That's what all abductees say.
Lisa Lutz
#70. I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.
Corinne Bailey Rae
#71. I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#72. No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#73. Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#74. I think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music, if it's so readily available for free?"
Corinne Bailey Rae
#75. It's Christmas! You just got your Hogwarts acceptance letter, a copy of Action Comics #1, and a brand new car that runs on water!
Leah Rae Miller
#76. Emily squared her shoulders and said simply, "I'm fine, I'm not really loving your social skills though. Don't you know this is no way to start a conversation?" Emily's mouth clamped shut at the expression on the monsters face.
Nicole Rae
#77. I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#78. It's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.
Chang-rae Lee
#79. ME LIKE THE MAGNET
Men I like, I repel
Like a magnet do
So if I'm nasty
Then you know
I probably fancy you.
"It's defence," the shrinks would say.
"It's protects against a fall."
It's impenetrable this fence of mine
It's like the Berlin Wall.
Rae Earl
#80. There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#81. There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.
Nancy Pearl
#82. It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.
Derek Rae
#83. You look beautiful," Alodia says.
I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I'm beautiful to the one person who matters."
She nods. "Hector's mouth is going to drop open when he sees you."
"I hope so. But I meant me. I'm beautiful to me.
Rae Carson
#84. So, are we going to talk about the fact that your jeans have just ripped apart like a hooker's legs on a Friday night?
Rae Matthews
#85. 'I thought you were an atheist,' Sjurd commented to hide the clench of his gut. He couldn't be stuck here while his country burned.
'Nobody's an atheist in a storm,' Celyn said absently, still frowning at the sky.
Amy Rae Durreson
#86. It's a night for shimmering, for catching the light just so.
Rae Carson
#87. In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.
Chang-rae Lee
#88. I should have let you bust Frank Dilley's nose," I say.
"That would have made things worse," he says.
"But it would have been a pleasure to watch.
Rae Carson
#89. It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don't mean gaining "self-knowledge" or understanding one's "true nature" but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology.
Chang-rae Lee
#90. Struggle isn't fun but it's an opportunity to be brave.
Rae Smith
#91. There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.
Issa Rae
#92. There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.
Rae Hachton
#93. May I document your recovery? It's such a devastating and fascinating injury.
Rae Carson
#94. What's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?
-Dan Garrett
Leah Rae Miller
#95. It's utterly infuriating, the number of people I've encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God's will.
Rae Carson
#97. My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
Carly Rae Jepsen
#98. Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#99. Thank you for lending me the use of your maid. I tragically lost my lady-in-waiting on our journey and found Cosme's presence such a comfort.
Rae Carson
#100. Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.
Chang-rae Lee
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