Stacey Lee > Quotes

“Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not wild, she's spirited. 'Wild' means 'I no care about what I do.' But 'spirited' means, 'I love what I do.' Big difference.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“West looks up. 'This is the best time to hunt, when the animals are out looking for their suppers. 'Course, with a painted sky, light's not always good.' I never heard someone call the sky painted before, but it's the perfect word. Clouds outlined in gold streak across the firmament, casting uneven shadows over the landscape.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“no one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“Maybe life just tastes sweeter after you’ve licked death.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“What is the job of a parent, but to teach a child she has worth so that one day she can transform herself into whatever she wants.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“We can run the race as well as any man. We only need the opportunity.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.”
― Stacey Lee, The Secret of a Heart Note

“Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“I pat my mule's neck and find comfort in the silky tufts of her mane. Father told me not to brood when people judged me for my wrapper, not my filling, or I would spend my whole life in the steamer.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“You miss being a girl? I ask her.
Not as much as I thought I would. Just feels like when I'm being a boy, I can cut a wider path.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“Your head’s like a room and when you’s forced to stay in it, you gotta deal with all the trash that’s left in there.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“The two words that will change your life are "thank you". Like a candle that can light a thousand more without shortening its own life, appreciation is a gift that, when given, can set the whole world aglow.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“Just like life.” “What?” “The clouds. They never hold still. Sometimes you think you’re seeing one thing, and a second later, the whole picture changes.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“You’re growing like a rumor, aren’t you?”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“Justice and fairness are for other people, umbrellas that open only for certain heads. The Chinese just try to stay out of the rain, and if we are caught in a downpour, we make do, knowing that the rain will not last forever.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“Maybe sorrow and its opposite, happiness, are like dark and light. One can’t exist without the other. And those moments of overlap are like when the moon and the sun share the same sky. A”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“Sometimes, things must get harder before they can change.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“I scold the worries away. As Ma likes to say, you cannot control the wind, but you can control your sails.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“It is like the moon. We can see it differently by climbing a mountain, but we cannot outrun it. As it should be.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“I don’t understand the constant need to prove one’s manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“The knowledge that the person to whom I am writing is also writing just one floor above me makes my shadow sit up straighter, and if shadows had smiles, I might see one reflected there.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“While I might not have received a full St. Clare’s education, somehow I picked up something better. Friends who care enough to knock on your pumpkin and make sure you haven’t gone mushy inside.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“Breathing is underrated.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky