Denise Chávez > Quotes

“Remember the past, but don't get lost back there. Celebrate the blessings of the past in the present, but remember to live today. Today is built on the past and tomorrow is evolving from both the past and the present. The future? Quien sabe? Hopefully, there will always be tacos”
― Denise Chávez, A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture

“He was a man who knew he'd come in after a long day and had found his shade (Irma)”
― Denise Chavez, Loving Pedro Infante

“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

“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

“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