Stacey Lee Quotes

“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 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

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

“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

“You ever think about the noose?'

'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“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

“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

“We have the same dirt under our shoes as they do.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

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

“You may no longer be in school, but you must never stop learning. We need to be as smart as the white ghosts.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

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

“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

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

“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

“I'll need to be a tiger if I want to have my own global business.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“I've never thought too hard about my convictions and wonder if it's too late now.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“Cheeks are a measure of one's authority, and my high cheekbones indicate an assertive, ambitious nature. They were a gift from my mother, and I am proud of them, even though men shy away from women with that attribute.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“I am crossing back to the opposite side -- Mercy the Fearsome is not stupid -- but if I let the Italian cow me, I show him and anyone watching that we can be pushed around like the dogs they think us to be.”
― Stacey Lee, Outrun the Moon

“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

“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