Wildflower Quotes
"I was so in love with its color, and it taught me that beauty could live in a seedy area. Not only live but also be strong!"
"Men left and moms worked were the messages I was receiving from our lives in this duplex."
"We were all just really happy in our fantasyland."
"I wondered if they were plants or flowers. They looked like angry flamingos."
"You don’t need money to marvel at something!"
"This was the day I learned the word 'pruned.'"
"The ghosts of them bloom fresh in my memory all the time."
"Let us all be like them and defy tradition, and yet create our own traditions at the same time. Let us all be wildflowers!"
"Words were not an option at this point, as my tongue had become a fat cashmere taquito."
"Hungry? I was hungry since the day I was born!"
"A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never ever be taken for granted!"
"I was her bridesmaid, and she is my daughter Frankie’s godmother."
"I was too colorful for this project, but maybe his other one I was more suited for."
"We were human Polaroids slowly developing into what other people would see, but for now we were just scrappy kids in no rush to grow up."
"I wondered where life was going to take me with this double-edged sword of opportunities."
"You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class. That being free is about freeing yourself."
"By yourself, you are just a solo daydreamer. But with a partner or a team, you are unstoppable."
"Work takes giving it your all, or it will not get done right."
"You have to kill yourself. Do your homework. Exhaust yourself."
"You have to put all of yourself into something with your heart and your gut instinct."
"You never know where the day is going to take you!"
"I was convinced at the time we were supposed to pair up."
"I thought Adam had a goodness that was so unique."
"Don’t act your characters, BE your characters."
"Karate was fun and strangely the one thing I really loved."
"Every day there will be damage to something or someone, just hopefully not too bad."
"I hadn’t thought about this in so long, but even so, it haunts me daily."
"I realized right then and there that in life you have to make your dreams come true."
"I am a stay-at-home mom some days and a working mom others."
"The point is you do your best. Your very best every day."
"I felt so different than I did when it dropped me off that it was shocking."
"You never give up, and you ask yourself how you got here?"
"It’s empowering and humbling, being a lover of animism."
"And you are well aware of every gift you get."
"It was ironic that I didn’t have school as my main priority in my own life."
"Schools specifically are what I was passionate about."
"It was a lot to process and I didn’t want to just give money and not see where it went."
"I wanted to fulfill my position by trying to not just donate my own money but also to get others involved."
"Through my learning what they needed, I felt healed of something that had always been painful."
"I hope I can inspire them. I will do my best."
"I was asking myself the big question of 'how will this all function?'"
"I could see a life with this man. It was new, but the stakes felt high."
"There’s nothing overrated about being a grandparent."
"Age doesn’t matter. It’s the person inside the shell that draws me in or doesn’t."