Under a Painted Sky Quotes

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

“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

“no one ever injured an eye by looking at the bright side.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“Maybe life just tastes sweeter after you’ve licked death.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“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.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Just like life.” “What?” “The clouds. They never hold still. Sometimes you think you’re seeing one thing, and a second later, the whole picture changes.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.”
― 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

“Breathing is underrated.”
― 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

“I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“You ever think about the noose?'

'I been thinking about the noose since I was born.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“I bet those boys bit their way out of the womb,” Andy whispers.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky

“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.”
― 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. “You”
― 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.” “Passed?”
― 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

“I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then it's written in the stars, and we can't do much to avoid it.”
― Stacey Lee, Under a Painted Sky