6 Quotes & Sayings By Rachel Autumn Deering

Rachel Autumn Deering is a writer and author of the bestselling memoir Falling: A Memoir of Resilience and Renewal. Her work has been featured in Forbes, on NPR, and on Good Morning America. She holds a master's degree from San Francisco State University and studied with Dr. Jerome Groopman at Harvard Medical School for his course on Writing the Best Medical Books Read more

Rachel's book, Falling: A Memoir of Resilience and Renewal, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2015. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.

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You'd better pray your ass off before you climb in bed tonight. You better pray the Lord finds you some other line of business, cuz the folks you're working for right now is goddamn devils. Swindling, thieving, crooked goddamn devils. Rachel Autumn Deering
He started to wonder if maybe they had been raptured...
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He started to wonder if maybe they had been raptured while he was in school. He always worried the Lord would show up when he wasn't around. Or when he was on the toilet, taking care of a number two. Rachel Autumn Deering
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The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for life. It had sat unopened for so long, suffocating in the silence, it's memories blanketed by a thick layer of dust. Rachel Autumn Deering
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She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she would offer to do for a couple of dollars would make the Devil blush. Rachel Autumn Deering
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The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid her to rest in January. Rachel Autumn Deering