"We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom." - Charles de Lint

But that’s what we all are – just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we’d just fade away.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Jilly was one of those who preferred to know what was going on and try to do something about it, rather than pretend it wasn’t happening and hoping that, by ignoring what was wrong, it would just go away. Truth was, Jilly had long ago learned, trouble never went away. It just got worse—unless you fixed it.