Ruby Camacho > Ruby's Quotes

“Butterflies are too few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.”
― Cisneros Sandra

“You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad.”
― Cisneros Sandra

“Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I know. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life.”
― Cisneros Sandra

“Not a flat. Not an appartement in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own.”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?”
― Max Porter, Lanny

“Sometimes a person's unhappiness can make them forget they are a part of something bigger, something like a family, a people, even a tribe.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

“Anglos were perhaps the most dangerous storytellers of all—for they believed only their own words, and they allowed their stories to trample the truths of nearly every other man on Earth.”
― Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light