7 Quotes by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

I had an accident.""Oh, no," said the girl, scooting closer to Doty and squeezing her hand. "I bet people say you're lucky it wasn't worse.""As a matter of fact," said Doty, "no one says anything about it at all.

Some people want to kill them, but I think even the ugly things deserve a chance to live. It's just about making sure things can live together without destroying each other...'Who said anyone deserves anything,' she thought....

Some people want to kill them, but I think even the ugly things deserve a chance to live. It's just about making sure things can live together without destroying each other."..."Who said anyone deserves anything, she thought...

Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first.

But Doty felt white men treated her as something less than a full woman, a type of exotic object to display in their homes like a dead animal.

Once I asked her why she needed to scrub so hard it hurt. 'Because we are not dirty people,' she had said. Later, when I asked Mama about it, she told me when Grandma Estrella was a little girl, her own teachers called her a dirty Mexican and it never left her, the shame of dirt.

Grandma Estrella whispered, 'That man and his choices are behind you now.