The Last of the Menu Girls Quotes

“Only farmers and the young, who live dependent upon change, understand what it is to know the continual flowering of life, however subtle.”
― Denise Chávez, The Last of the Menu Girls

“We rolled up the pain, assigned it to a shelf, left it there, with a certain self-congratulatory sense of relief at our own good fortune as we looked the other way [...] and soon, we forgot we had ever felt any discomfort.”
― Denise Chávez, The Last of the Menu Girls

“To me, Texas signified strange days, querulous wanderings, bloody fairy tales, hot, moon-filled nights, earthworms, and unbought flowers. Texas was women to me: my aunt dying of cancer, my grandmother’s hunchbacked sister, and Eloisa. All laughing, laughing.”
― Denise Chávez, The Last of the Menu Girls