Outrun The Moon Quotes

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Stacey  Lee
“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

“You expect certain things to always be there, like the bakery on the corner, or the boy you grew up with. But when the very ground can eat you alive without warning, what's to say the ocean won't dry up? Or the stars won't suddenly shut off? Nothing is forever.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“I never said you didn't have a heart. But it would be nice if it beat every now and then.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“I never backed down from a challenge before, and I don't intend to start today.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“Though grammatically perfect, a French accent stretches his English out of shape.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“I misjudge and our teeth collide, but he gently corrects course instead of pulling away. When he kisses me back, all the hurt inside me floats to the surface and somehow drains away. It makes me want to laugh.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“Don't you get too greedy, Death. You already have taken more than your fair share today. You can't have me yet.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“Living people are a dying breed.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“As for Headmistress Crouch, I pegged her as the type who wouldn't have a mate, either because of her exacting standards, or because she ate him for dinner.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“Many, including my late grandfather, fled the mother country because of economic hardship from the Opium Wars. England coerced China into accepting the black tar in payment for tea and cracked China open like a ginkgo nut. Old injuries still itch.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

Stacey  Lee
“I may have no notion of what's in the beans for me now, with everything upside down and sideways. But one thing I know is that I belong in this moment.”
Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon