“...every day we fill up with anxiety just makes life much harder than it needs to be." Those are words I need tattooed to my forehead!”
“I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.”
“I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.”
“abuelita speaks no english. she doesn't need to, zoe thinks. her smile fills and communicates so much more than the empty, half-said words of zoe's life. ”
“... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to be different in all those things which pertain to our every day life ...”