“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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“I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, quote from No Longer Human
“The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Chosen
“Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, quote from The Good Soldier Švejk
“[Riley] slapped his hands to his face and then dropped them as if in surrender. 'I always say the wrong thing around you. Look, can we start over?'
Over?"
Yes. Over. Wipe the board clean.'
But I would have to go back to hating you and not trusting you' I said
Oh, well don't do that.' He paused and chewed his lip. 'Does that mean you like and trust me now?' "
- Riley and Trella”
― Maria V. Snyder, quote from Inside Out
“He'd wanted changes. It was just that he'd wanted things to stay the same, as well.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Pyramids
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