Daughters Quotes
oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)
...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)
Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him.
Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me.""Pilar doesn't hate you, hija. She just hasn't learned to love you yet.
No matter how old you are, you always want your mother’s love and acceptance. I guess I’m hoping one day I’ll get it back.
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think, ' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.
Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.
The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble
Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories
Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.
Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked to be surrounded by beautiful women. Now I have a wife and four daughters.
From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.
My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.
They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them— never bad, often good, sometimes hard.
Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.
Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.
I can be anything I want to be. Just wait and you will see. Only time will tell what I will be.
Don't even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.
Why won’t you help me? You have to able to manage on your own.
This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.
We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.
The people that truly love us in life don't fight for us to remain a doormat for others.
Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.
Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom
Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?
I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?
Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.
I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.
But inside loss there can be gain, too, like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.
Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.
It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.
The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.
