# Breath, Eyes, Memory

- Author: [Edwidge Danticat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory

## Quotes

> I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to. (p234)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/i-come-from.md)

> "...The things one does, one should do out of love." (chapter 17 p118)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/the-things-one.md)

> "Do you see my granddaughter?...Isn't it a miracle that we can visit with all our kin, simply by looking into this face?" (chapter 14, p103)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/do-you-see.md)

> '...She cannot stay out of duty. The things one does, one should do out of love.' (p155)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/she-cannot-stay.md)

> "I think it is very good that she has learned to read," I said. "It is her own freedom." (chapter 17 p118)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/i-think-it-is-very.md)

> Tante Atie once said that love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you. (p91)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/tante-atie-once.md)

> 'It is the calm and silent waters that drown you...' (p172)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/it-is-the.md)

> A flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my aunt Atie for Mother's Day. I pressed my palm over the flower and squashed it against the plain beige cardboard. (first lines)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/a-flattened-and.md)

> 'If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.' (p165)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/if-a-woman.md)

> That night, I slept hugging my secret. (p112)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/that-night-i-slept.md)

> "Only good deeds demand respect." (chapter 15, p110)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory/only-good-deeds.md)