Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don’t – If you don’t, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption – That you must not feel anything at all.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Nora Raleigh Baskin Quotes

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

These were such friendly people, they didn’t notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

What was costly was not the shot but coming back without good pictures to choose from. The light was perfect, orange gray, casting long shadows. The city seemed to reveal more the darker it got.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

You know how they say there’s only one thing in the universe that’s constant?′ Jonas started. ‘Change. Change is the only constant in the universe. And left alone, all things return to chaos.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Know how to live with the time that is given you.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

About Stories

He says, “But, hey, wouldn’t it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he’s all tall and stuff, and then he doesn’t recognize himself in the mirror?

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Old elbows,” she told me. “A woman’s elbows always give her age away.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can’t be any other way.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Romance

Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don’t – If you don’t, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption – That you must not feel anything at all.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That’s it.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

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