Annette Chavez Macias > Quotes

“Ay, Marisol. When will you learn that living with something you don’t love is not living at all?”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“Sometimes, you find the strength to do what scares you most if you believe your life will be better because of it.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“I thought the worst thing in the world was going to be having my mom die. But it’s not. The worst thing is learning how to live without her.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“A gift is a gift, and you should always be grateful for anything someone gives you out of love. The day you tell someone what to give you is the day you no longer get gifts out of love, but rather obligation. Well, for me, I’d rather have the love.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“Love isn’t supposed to be a power play or some game where there has to be a winner or a loser. Real love, true love, is about two people entrusting their hearts to one another so that together they can become something much more wonderful.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“courage to do what I wanted and not what everyone expected.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“It was ironic that Jason and I had decided to have a baby in order to save our marriage. Yet, the journey itself threatened to kill it for good.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“I should’ve known then that you can’t always outrun your past.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“Not because I wasn’t proud of my Mexican heritage. Sometimes I was just too tired to defend it.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“And some days, like today, my mind failed to protect me from the visceral memories of one of the most traumatic times of my life.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“I just think that sometimes holding on to only the bad things that happened to us leaves us too tired to enjoy the good.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“sometimes holding on to only the bad things that happened to us leaves us too tired to enjoy the good.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“But sometimes you've got to take a leap even when you don't see the bottom. Otherwise, you may never find something better.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“Grief, I’d learned, didn’t have a finish line. It was an endless journey. Some days the path was easy, and other days you’d be running perfectly fine and then, out of nowhere, you’d stumble, and the pain would come roaring back as if your loss had just happened.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“The day you tell someone what to give you is the day you no longer get gifts out of love, but rather obligation.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“A gift is a gift, and you should always be grateful for anything someone gives you out of love.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“People you love are going to hurt you. People you love are going to leave. People you love are going to die. That’s life.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“She’d always told us that people who hurt us don’t deserve our tears.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“I know some people say that grief gets better with time. But I would argue that it just takes on a different form. You don't get over losing a loved one; you just learn to live with it.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“Sometimes we have to do things we’ve never done in order to grow. Because when you stop growing, you die.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“thought the worst thing in the world was going to be having my mom die. But it’s not. The worst thing is learning how to live without her.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“Family is the most important thing in this world. Sometimes, though, you don’t realize it until you don’t have it anymore.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“Lesson one: Never let your guard down. The second you think you’re in control—bam! Chaos ensues. Lesson two: Logic doesn’t always win arguments. Sometimes you just have to accept that no matter what you say, you can’t change minds. Lesson three: It never hurts to ask for help. Especially from the Big Guy.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“I was falling in love with Adrian Mendes.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“911,” I said. “What kind of emergency?” she replied. “Are we putting our hair up and taking off our hoop earrings, or is it something that can be cured with a tub of ice cream and Baileys?”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“Sometimes we have to do things we’ve never done in order to grow. Because when”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“Oh, she was mean. Very judgmental and opinionated. She didn’t really like a lot of people. Well, I guess she didn’t like anyone except me. But it wasn’t like that right away. We didn’t get along at all that first year I moved in. Then we both realized we had a lot in common, and I was very drawn to her. I guess she liked me because I always told her the truth. I was like the granddaughter she never had. But it was very hard to gain her trust. She was the kind of person who always thought the worst of people.” “That’s no way to live,” I said. “It isn’t. So why are you headed down the same path?”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Too Soon for Adiós

“That’s when I realized it wasn’t all some horrible dream. That morning I had been a wife. That afternoon I was close to becoming a divorcée. And by dinnertime, I was a widow.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows

“Because, I didn’t want him to stay because of the baby. I wanted him to stay because of me,” I said.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, Big Chicas Don't Cry

“Just because you say it in Spanish doesn’t mean it makes it less insulting.”
― Annette Chavez Macias, When We Were Widows