66 Quotes by Bernardine Evaristo

She came home from work to the noise of fellow youngsters having fun through the partition wallsExacerbating her alonenessYet she knew this was exactly what she neededSolititudeTo register what she was feelingForcing herself to become deaf to all sound except her own

She looks over at the Tate on the opposite side of the river, where she occasionally wanders the galleries to clear her head during lunchtime (when she takes one), to marvel at the ability of artists to make such mind-blowing creations out of their imaginationImaginationWhat was that?Does she even have one?

I tell Mum she married a patriarchLook at it this way, Amma, she says, your father was born male in Ghana in the 1920s whereas you were born female in London in the 1960sAnd your point is?You really can’t expect him to ‘get you’, as you put itI let her know she’s an apologist for the patriarchy and complicit in a system that oppresses all womenShe says human beings are complexI tell her not patronize me

Waris said it's crazy that people are so stupid to think over one and a half billion Muslims all think and act the same way, a Muslim man carries out a mass shooting or blows people up and he's called a terrorist, a white man does the same thing and he's called a mad manboth sets are mad, Yazz

Penelope came to the conclusion that marrying someone when you're in love with them was perhaps not such a good idea, netter to wait a few years (ten, twenty, thirty, never?) to see if you're still compatible after the passion has subsided and reality set in.

Penelope came to the conclusion that marrying someone when you’re in love with them was perhaps not such a good idea, better to wait a few years (ten, twenty, thirty, never?) to see if you’re still compatible after the passion has subsided and reality set in

Roland was one of the lucky hedonists to survive El Diablo which swooped in to kill so many of themSo many deaths ruined any sense of nostalgia, sadly, remembering the past also meantRemembering theDead

She likes to walk barefoot inside the house, even in winterIt’s one of the secretes of her long-lasting mobility, keeping her toes spread and feet grounded, same as all the other beasts of natureHooves, that’s what she’s gothooves

Ageing is nothing to be ashamed ofEspecially when the entire race is in it togetherAlthough sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting olderBecause it’s such a privilege to not die prematurely