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“If we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles.”
― Michael D. O'Brien

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“We could watch the madmen, on clement days, sauntering and skipping among the trim gravel walks and pleasantly planted lawns; happy collaborationists who had given up the unequal struggle, all doubts resolved, all duty done, the undisputed heirs-at-law of a century of progress, enjoying the heritage at their ease.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money. Except there's no money left. And no hope.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it? ”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Or more accurately, since we were in the plane, our shadows figured as well inside the shadow of the airplane skimming over mountain and field. Which would mean we too were imprinted into the earth.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“And on every rooftop stood unimaginably tall television antennae. These silver feelers groped about in the air, in defiance of the mountains that formed a backdrop to the town.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Sometimes a person's unhappiness can make them forget they are a part of something bigger, something like a family, a people, even a tribe.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“Ever feel like the land is swallowing you whole, Sierra? That all of this beauty is wrapped around you so tight it's like being in a rattlesnake's mouth?”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“Lying there with my mother in the afternoon light of my bedroom, I imagined her far into the future, driving day and night, her little white truck sliding from mountain peak to valley, through snow and heat waves, windstorms and lightning. Her headlights beam bright and warm, shining into town, the place where I'll live when I'm finally a grown-up and my mother's black hair is silver and her face is well-lined. In the distance, I see her arriving, joyously waving to me, her last stop.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“My grandmother believed every woman needed to know how she looked from any angle. It was important, she said, to know how the rest of the world viewed us.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“That's just dumb. No one wants a girl who doesn't talk. You might as well be dead.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“She said people will find the loveliest part of you and try to make it ugly. And they will do anything to own that piece of you.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“My grandmother hardly mentioned Auntie Liz except to say that what killed her had killed them all.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“They look at us the same way, Corina.' She laughed and pointed to my face. 'They look at us like we're nothing.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“I thought of all the women my family had lost, the horrible things they'd witnessed, the acts they simply endured. Sabrina had become another face in a line of tragedies that stretched back generations. And soon, when the mood hit my grandmother just right, she'd sit at her kitchen table, a Styrofoam cup of lemonade in her warped hand, and she'd tell the story of Sabrina Cordova—how men loved her too much, how little she loved herself, how in the end it killed her. The stories always ended the same, only different girls died, and I didn't want to hear them anymore.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“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.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“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."

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"Who said anyone deserves anything, she thought...”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“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.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“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.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“Grandma Estrella whispered, 'That man and his choices are behind you now.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“Everyone has a family, Alejandra,' my father said. 'It just depends on whether that matters to them.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“That poor girl. How the world just ate her up.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina