Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady

“have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

“No coincidence, no story.”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

“You have special abilities,” she goes on. “I don’t mean you are a witch or a fox spirit. And you’ve never seemed drawn to the special gift of healing or magic. Rather, you are like A-ma Mata, who gave birth to the Akha people, who pushed against her restraints, who said, ‘No, I will not accept my bad fate,’ and who endured against all odds with her intelligence, compassion, and perseverance. All that comes from this grove. And the mother tree.” A-ma”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

“When she reaches the ground, she looks from the old woman to me. A moment of confusion. Then recognition. I know her too, because I've seen traces of her in my face in the mirror. My mother. My a-ma.”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane