Quotes from Rita Williams-Garcia

Although I didn't hear the door swing

You don't know something bothers you until you no longer have to do it. Suddenly you're both angry and glad. Angry you did it for all those years and glad you'll never do it again.

I)f you prayed for the miracle you'd sell your most treasured possession for, you don't care about anything else but waiting on that miracle.

Mother is a statement of fact. Cecile Johnson gave birth to us. We came out of Cecile Johnson. In the animal kingdom that makes her our mother. Every mammal on the planet has a mother, dead or alive. Ran off or stayed put. Cecile Johnson—mammal birth giver, alive, an abandoner—is our mother. A statement of fact.

A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is how people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb.

Once you give an ultimatum, you have to mean it. You can't pull back. Sometimes your 'or else' is all the power you have and you can't be afraid to do what you threaten to do.

the Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking…but

It is a bad thing to bite into hard fruit with little teeth. You will say bad things about the fruit when the problem is your teeth.

Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking…but

Every good-bye ain't gone.

The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders

I wanted to write this story for those children who witnessed and were part of necessary change. Yes. There were children.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.