50 Quotes by Stacey Lee

"A blessing loves a good surprise."

"The kimono eyes me from the wardrobe. She's a saucy miss, asking if I'm woman enough to put her on. I take my time eating a sticky bun and a scone with marmalade, washing them both down with good English tea.Fortified, I slide the kimono off the hanger. It seems to slink right over my shoulders, the little minx, making herself at home around me."

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

"Breathing is underrated."

"We have the same dirt under our shoes as they do."

"Our basement has grown smaller over the years, the brick shrunken and faded, the ceiling lower than I remember. Or perhaps the realities of my life have grown too big and unwieldy for the walls to contain."

"I scold the worries away. As Ma likes to say, you cannot control the wind, but you can control your sails."

"I may have no notion of what's in the beans for me now, with everything upside down and sideways. But one thing I know is that I belong in this moment."

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

"I am crossing back to the opposite side -- Mercy the Fearsome is not stupid -- but if I let the Italian cow me, I show him and anyone watching that we can be pushed around like the dogs they think us to be."