“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
“Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.”
“I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?”
“Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.”
“Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy”
“Trust the Simi. She ain't never wrong.”