Top 60 Stacey Lee Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We are all ike candles, and whether we are single or joined with another does not affect how brightly we can burn. Respectfully submitted, Miss Sweetie.”

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2. “A community is like that shawl, and once you are a part of it, you tie your fate to the threads closest to you.”

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3. “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.“-Under A Painted Sky.”

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4. “There are some people, when you meet them, you feel as if you’ve known them all your life. And then there are people who live under your nose all your life, yet you don’t know them at all.”

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5. “As long as you have a home, you have a place to plan and dream.”

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6. “We carry around the light of our loved ones who have passed. It is they who light the path for us.”

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7. “Don’t you get too greedy, Death. You already have taken more than your fair share today. You can’t have me yet.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you.”

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10. “It is like the moon. We can see it differently by climbing a mountain, but we cannot outrun it. As it should be.”

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11. “The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “The two words that will change your life are “thank you”. Like a candle that can light a thousand more without shortening its own life, appreciation is a gift that, when given, can set the whole world aglow.”

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14. “Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.”

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15. “Breathing is underrated.”

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16. “Sometimes things fall apart so better things can come together.”

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17. “Living people are a dying breed.”

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18. “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.”

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

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20. “Maybe life just tastes sweeter after you’ve licked death.”

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21. “I scold the worries away. As Ma likes to say, you cannot control the wind, but you can control your sails.”

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22. “An anxious mind makes lions of tumble weeds.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “She reeks of insincerity, like dirty bathwater and pond salt.”

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25. “Justice and fairness are for other people, umbrellas that open only for certain heads. The Chinese just try to stay out of the rain, and if we are caught in a downpour, we make do, knowing that the rain will not last forever.”

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26. “People are like boats, always coming and going. Sometimes never returning. Now that his boat has sailed, the sea is empty for me.”

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27. “The sooner you let people be who they want to be, the better for all.”

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28. “While I might not have received a full St. Clare’s education, somehow I picked up something better. Friends who care enough to knock on your pumpkin and make sure you haven’t gone mushy inside.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence.”

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31. “Most people don’t know that heartache smells like blueberries.”

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32. “The knowledge that the person to whom I am writing is also writing just one floor above me makes my shadow sit up straighter, and if shadows had smiles, I might see one reflected there.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “You may no longer be in school, but you must never stop learning. We need to be as smart as the white ghosts.”

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35. “Troubles are like weeds, and the longer you avoid them, the bigger they grow.”

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36. “Sometimes, things must get harder before they can change.”

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37. “I never backed down from a challenge before, and I don’t intend to start today.”

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38. “No, the key to wealth was opportunity. And if opportunity didn’t come knocking than Mrs. Lowry says you must build your own door.”

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39. “You’re growing like a rumor, aren’t you?”

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40. “As for Headmistress Crouch, I pegged her as the type who wouldn’t have a mate, either because of her exacting standards, or because she ate him for dinner.”

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41. “It is better to look out a window than into a glass; otherwise all you see is yourself and what’s behind you.”

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42. “It amazes me that even when the world is going to hell in a handcart, there’s still beauty in the fringes. Francesca.”

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43. “Though grammatically perfect, a French accent stretches his English out of shape.”

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44. “Horses are like people. Some work better under pressure.”

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45. “A blessing loves a good surprise.”

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46. “In her last letter to her love, Percy, before she died, Hyacinth wrote, Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “Do not linger in the garden of memories, for there are many traps.”

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49. “Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.”

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50. “How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I.”

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