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Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

Rebecca Wells
Flower, Islands, Canada

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

Rebecca Wells
Gratitude, Believe, Blessing

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

Rebecca Wells
Writing, Memoir, Stills
Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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
Girl, Mother, Creativity

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

Rebecca Wells
Gratitude, Book, Writing

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

Rebecca Wells
Fear, Brave, Bears
Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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

Rebecca Wells
Smell, Exotic, Delight
Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Rebecca Wells
Book, Reading, Somewhere Else

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

Rebecca Wells
Fun, Sadness, Having Fun

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

Rebecca Wells
Years, Tales, Over The Edge
Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.22, Harper Collins

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
Book, Heart, Skills
Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.9, Harper Collins

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