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“Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.” (Under a Painted Sky Quotes)
Stacey Lee
Under a Painted Sky
“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
Under a Painted Sky
“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
Under a Painted Sky
“Maybe life just tastes sweeter after you’ve licked death.”
Stacey Lee
Under a Painted Sky
“Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you.”
Stacey Lee
Under a Painted Sky
“No one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side.”
Stacey Lee
Under a Painted Sky
“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
Under a Painted Sky
“We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us.”
Stacey Lee
Under a Painted Sky
“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
Under a Painted Sky
“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
Under a Painted Sky
“You want my take, there’s nothing wrong with matching people up according to the stars, because at least someone gave a thought to it. Lots of deuces leap the altar ’cause they like getting sacked, and lots of girls agree ’cause they think they got no choice. Ain’t fair to the human race, and that’s the short of it.”
Stacey Lee
Under a Painted Sky
“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
Under a Painted Sky
