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“Tell them to walk in the shade. To listen with their eyes, to see with their skin, and to feel with their ears, because life speaks to us all and we just need to know and wait to listen to it, see it, feel it.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“Life offers no guarantees. To anyone. It waits for nobody. It has no consideration for anyone.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album: Essays

“In life, only potential was free. The outcome, the achievement, the aim came at a high cost, which she was prepared to pay.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees