I Lived on Butterfly Hill Quotes

“Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“Tears are for happiness.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“An illness called nostalgia, which often is cured with a sprinkle of love, some lemon, a few raisins and many slices of avocado.

Wine is a yellow sun in a crystal goblet. One taste of Chile's earth and sky could delight the entire world.

Maybe once you are an exile, you always are an exile. Always missing somewhere else, always carrying a bit from here and a bit from there and always with a bit of a broken heart.

A refugee - a beautiful word, a beautiful thing. An exile. That means I am a traveler of the world and I belong to nothing but the things I love.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“Sometimes remembering means to live a moment in the past again, and in that way survive the present.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill

“I want to show Miss Rose how much more I can do this year because she has helped me so much with my English.”
― Marjorie Agosín, I Lived on Butterfly Hill