“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“They say behind mountains are more mountains.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, manman says, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“. “Manman tells papa, you cannot let them kill somebody just because you are afraid. Papa says, oh yes, you can let them kill somebody because you are afraid. They are the law. It is their right.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us” (Danticat 19).”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“If they come into a house and there is a son and a mother there, they hold a gun to their heads. They make the son sleeps with his mother. If it is a daughter and a father, they do the same thing.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“This is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something to leave behind even after she was gone, something that showed what she had observed in a way that no one else had and no one else would after her.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“We already have posterity," I said.
"When?'
"We were babies and we grew old”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“On that day so long ago, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the Massacre River, my mother did fly. Weighted down by my body inside hers, she leaped from Dominican soil into the water, and out again on the Haitian side of the river. She glowed red when she came out, blood clinging to her skin, which at that moment looked as though it were in flames.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat
Born place: in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Born date January 19, 1969
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“Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, the earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas.
She had to admit, the signs were not promising.”
― Peter Lerangis, quote from The Viper's Nest
“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, quote from The Lowland
“And no matter what I did, I couldn't save you. And I Couldn't bring myself to kill you.They..."He takes a deep breath and pull me against him."You might as well have eaten my heart straight from my living body.I would rather die a thousand times at your hands than see you captured.Even if you eat my heart. Because you already own it.”
― Bethany Wiggins, quote from Stung
“Never forget how right it felt when my lips finally touched yours.
...
Never forget the way you pulled closer - wanting it to feel like my heart was beating inside your chest.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Never Never: Part Two
“Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.”
― Bethany Hamilton, quote from Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
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