Rachel Klein Professions : Novelist Born : 1953 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Rachel Klein She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything. Rachel Klein wall fear dream I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me. Rachel Klein men boys sex Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand. Rachel Klein funeral body too-late You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them. Rachel Klein ritual I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity. Rachel Klein humanity heart two I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you. Rachel Klein down-and moments struggle I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving. Rachel Klein pain girl talking Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic. Rachel Klein girl sight blood How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? Rachel Klein details happened knows You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins. Rachel Klein fear dream world .. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway. Rachel Klein truth-is certain Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
