Stacey Lee Quotes & Sayings

I don't understand the constant need to prove one's manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood. — Stacey Lee

No, the key to wealth was opportunity. And if opportunity didn't come knocking than Mrs. Lowry says you must build your own door. — Stacey Lee

Most people don't know that heartache smells like blueberries. — Stacey Lee

There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family. — Stacey Lee

Maybe life just tastes sweeter after you've licked death. — Stacey Lee

Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down. — Stacey Lee

We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us. — Stacey Lee

Their deaths might leave a hole in our hearts as deep as the ocean, but it is only because we are as deep as the ocean, and our capacity to love is as high as the sky. The earthquake took much from us. But there is much we can take from it as well — Stacey Lee

I bet those boys bit their way out of the womb," Andy whispers. — Stacey Lee

I bypass car-size lemonade bushes, zingy with a hint of gym socks, toward a patch of lichen flourishing at the base of a eucalyptus. I put my nose right up to the musty scent, even though it smells like raccoon urine. Aromateurs are trained from an early age to view each scent with objectivity. "You — Stacey Lee

Breathing is underrated. — Stacey Lee

I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence. — Stacey Lee

You ever think about the noose?'

'I been thinking about the noose since I was born. — Stacey Lee

He walks with the ease of someone with places to go but time to get there. I'm entranced by the fluidity of his movement, like the way he bites on his finger then flicks it skyward to make a point, to test the wind, to show he's thinking. How he plucks a stem of grass and places it between his teeth. — Stacey Lee

A part of me understands the need to keep order, but another part worries that we are being led to fear the wrong things. It's just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country's own fear. — Stacey Lee

What I'm saying is, without hope, there could not be disappointment." The — Stacey Lee

Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you. — Stacey Lee

How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I — Stacey Lee

Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything. — Stacey Lee

Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me. — Stacey Lee

Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there. — Stacey Lee

no one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side. — Stacey Lee

Your head's like a room and when you's forced to stay in it, you gotta deal with all the trash that's left in there. — Stacey Lee

When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it. — Stacey Lee

I am reminded of the proverb about the man with a single teacup to fetch water for his plants. In order to keep some alive, he had to let others die or run himself ragged. I have chosen to water this particular plant despite all its thorns, and I must simply hope my relationship with Tom can survive my absence. — Stacey Lee

It is like the moon. We can see it differently by climbing a mountain, but we cannot outrun it. As it should be. — Stacey Lee

Trouble is, finding a girl is still a tricky situation, like choosing a hat." He flips off his hat and sweeps a finger along the edge of the brim. "Like, maybe you've had your eye on a fine-looking French number, but when it finally falls onto your head, it loses its appeal... Or maybe you've been told all your life that bison felts are the only hats worth wearing. And when something different comes along, say alligator suede, even though it's the most worthy thing you've seen in your life, you might leave it in the window"--he taps his chin--"until you realize no other hat will fit just right. — Stacey Lee

Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not wild, she's spirited. 'Wild' means 'I no care about what I do.' But 'spirited' means, 'I love what I do.' Big difference. — Stacey Lee

Maybe sorrow and its opposite, happiness, are like dark and light. One can't exist without the other. And those moments of overlap are like when the moon and the sun share the same sky. A — Stacey Lee

I pat my mule's neck and find comfort in the silky tufts of her mane. Father told me not to brood when people judged me for my wrapper, not my filling, or I would spend my whole life in the steamer. — Stacey Lee

My showmanship only comes out when I hold the violin - with Lady Tin-Yin in my arms, I don't care who watches. A peace comes over me, something I call my violin calm. — Stacey Lee

Just like life." "What?" "The clouds. They never hold still. Sometimes you think you're seeing one thing, and a second later, the whole picture changes. — Stacey Lee

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

West looks up. 'This is the best time to hunt, when the animals are out looking for their suppers. 'Course, with a painted sky, light's not always good.' I never heard someone call the sky painted before, but it's the perfect word. Clouds outlined in gold streak across the firmament, casting uneven shadows over the landscape. — Stacey Lee

You miss being a girl? I ask her.
Not as much as I thought I would. Just feels like when I'm being a boy, I can cut a wider path. — Stacey Lee

I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it. — Stacey Lee