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1 " If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch. "
― Raquel Cepeda , Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
2 " You go on with your life, because life goes on,” says Isabel. “You see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example.” Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven. “At first you think you can’t live with this,” says the author, who just turned sixty-five. “It’s just too much. Then life begins to take over. One morning you wake up and you want to eat chocolate. Or walk in the woods. Or open a bottle of wine. You get back up on your feet.” “When you can, right?” “You have no choice!” Isabel insists. “You cannot let the bullies keep you on the floor! I have been on my knees a thousand times, and I always get up. "
3 " I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry. "
― Jodi Picoult , My Sister's Keeper
