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“You have to have a purpose in life if you want to survive!” (p. 253).
“…We don't get to control the people we love. We only get to forgive them or forgive ourselves if we can't” (p. 269).

“You worry too damn much about pleasing everyone else. You never make choices for yourself. You've got to learn to stand alone. Have the courage to become an individual” (p. 194).

“A nascent realization rose in my brain: Mom had an inferiority complex with whites like Dad did with Navajos. As a small girl, I donned both versions of this oppression, and that's why I was always nervous in public. I had developed a "less than" perspective about Navajo people, yet I also feared that I wasn't as "good" as whites” (p. 141).