Stacey Lee Quotes

#1. What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?

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#2. no one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side.

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#3. I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.

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#4. Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not wild, she's spirited. 'Wild' means 'I no care about what I do.' But 'spirited' means, 'I love what I do.' Big difference.

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#5. We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us.

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#6. No, the key to wealth was opportunity. And if opportunity didn't come knocking than Mrs. Lowry says you must build your own door.

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#7. A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear.

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#8. It is like the moon. We can see it differently by climbing a mountain, but we cannot outrun it. As it should be.

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#9. Your head's like a room and when you's forced to stay in it, you gotta deal with all the trash that's left in there.

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#10. When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.

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#11. You miss being a girl? I ask her.
Not as much as I thought I would. Just feels like when I'm being a boy, I can cut a wider path.

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#12. Maybe sorrow and its opposite, happiness, are like dark and light. One can't exist without the other. And those moments of overlap are like when the moon and the sun share the same sky. A

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#13. Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.

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#14. Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.

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#15. Just like life." "What?" "The clouds. They never hold still. Sometimes you think you're seeing one thing, and a second later, the whole picture changes.

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#16. How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I

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#17. Their deaths might leave a hole in our hearts as deep as the ocean, but it is only because we are as deep as the ocean, and our capacity to love is as high as the sky. The earthquake took much from us. But there is much we can take from it as well

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#18. I bet those boys bit their way out of the womb," Andy whispers.

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#19. I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence.

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#20. What I'm saying is, without hope, there could not be disappointment." The

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#21. My showmanship only comes out when I hold the violin - with Lady Tin-Yin in my arms, I don't care who watches. A peace comes over me, something I call my violin calm.

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#22. I don't understand the constant need to prove one's manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood.

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#23. I bypass car-size lemonade bushes, zingy with a hint of gym socks, toward a patch of lichen flourishing at the base of a eucalyptus. I put my nose right up to the musty scent, even though it smells like raccoon urine. Aromateurs are trained from an early age to view each scent with objectivity. "You

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#24. Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me.

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#25. Breathing is underrated.

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#26. Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you.

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#27. Maybe life just tastes sweeter after you've licked death.

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#28. Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries.

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#29. Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.

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#30. There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.

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#31. I pat my mule's neck and find comfort in the silky tufts of her mane. Father told me not to brood when people judged me for my wrapper, not my filling, or I would spend my whole life in the steamer.

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#32. You ever think about the noose?'

'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

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