# Quote — Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory

> 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)

- Author: [Edwidge Danticat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat.md)
- Book: [Breath, Eyes, Memory](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/breath-eyes-memory.md)
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## More from this book

> 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)