Dawn Calimlim

“She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Daniel?"
"Yes."
"Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?"
"No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.”
― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory