Chica Quotes

#1. Life is a banquet, chica. Believe it or not, there's more on the buffet than work.

Emma Holly

#2. Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal."
"Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps.
"I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused.

Simone Elkeles

#3. No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

Henry Louis Gates

#4. You mean you want me to throw rocks at a bunch of monkeys in a tree in order to compete for food and prove that I, man, am the superior species? Chica," he said, clicking his tongue, "I've been waiting for an opportunity like this my whole life.

Jessica Khoury

#5. Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're beautiful.

Simone Elkeles

#6. Dont ruin my balls!" She laughs as the words leave her mouth.
Better yours than mine, chica." I toss the dough balls at her, one by one, until I've got none left.

Simone Elkeles

#7. Alice's razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call bueno, but I don't understand how that kind of hair can be good. It doesn't move at all, or ripple like the water in Boca Chica when I throw shells at it.

Raquel Cepeda

#8. Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Simone Elkeles

#9. So anyway, chica, this David Gandy dude ... is he hot?"
"Oh, so totally and completely hot." I nod enthusiastically.
"Uhum," Jake clears his throat loudly.
"But not as hot as you, baby."
"Damn straight," Jake mutters.

Samantha Towle

#10. You wanna cry, chica?"
She nodded and squaked, "Yes"
"Then you cry" He signed as he caressed her arm. "I can't make you hard, so you be soft for both of us, okay?

Kele Moon

#11. Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica.

To be intelligent, one must start young.

Maria Luisa Bombal

#12. The refrigerator in my room is still empty as usual, but I can't hear that sound any more. I feel that I can keep believing ... that even the thing all of us were looking for but never found on that day ... someday, surely.. We will find it.

Chica Umino

#13. Every time we think about being happy again, it hurts to be alive.
Because it seems an inordinate thing for us to wish for.
And because we think that day will never come for us.
And that's why the only thing we can do for now ...
... is just try to get through each night.

Chica Umino

#14. It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

Samuel Butler

#15. To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

Tracy Anne Warren

#16. But you should go, if that's what you need to do to get over it. You should go and cry your heart out.

Chica Umino

#17. No need for everyone to look the same.
The secret is to wear what suits you best!

Chica Umino

#18. There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#19. Christmas always used to get me down. There was something oppressive about all those twinkling colored lights.
"Are you happy?" "Do you fit in anywhere?" ... is what it felt like they were asking me.

Chica Umino

#20. Complaining about your luck is not allowed. Rokutarou, you're not the only one that matters but they leave that aside and do their best.If you start comparing misfortunes, it would never end. What's the meaning in that? Everyone knows you had a hard time.

Chica Umino

#21. It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out.
THAT's what life's all about.

Chica Umino

#22. Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Confucius

#23. Atop a replica of the scales of justice sat a golden baboon, which Khufu immediately started flirting with. There

Rick Riordan

#24. Glad to know about all of you who care about books, including or especially poetry. I'm a much published writer/editor of 12 books (medical nonfiction, literary novels, mysteries) and much short work, inc. prize-winning pieces.

Carole Spearin McCauley

#25. No one can stop what God has for you,

Russell Wilson

#26. My acting gives me my self-worth.

Elizabeth Banks

#27. Dear God,
what is my purpose of life?
What should I do to find it?
Once I found it, will I become stronger?
... Oh no, my mind is blank.
a strange sound kept ringing in my head.
What sound is that ... ?
Ah, I know.
It's ...
The sound of emptiness.

Chica Umino

#28. A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Yehudi Menuhin

#29. Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It's the same for you. It's the same for everyone.

Chica Umino

#30. As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But those miraculous days, when you and I, along with everyone else, searched together for just that one thing, will continue revolving forever somewhere deep in my heart, as my bittersweet memory.

Chica Umino

#31. To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

Chica Umino