55 Quotes by Esi Edugyan

What happened to them, in the end – did they use their freedom wisely or foolishly? ― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black, chapter 5

I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life.

I do not much care for childhood; it is a state of terrible vulnerability. It is therefore unnatural and incompatible with human life. Everyone will cut you, strike you, cheat you. Everyone will offer you suffering when goodness should reign. And because children can do nothing for themselves, they need good advocates, good parents. But a good parent is as rare as snow in summer.

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

Turn it," Thomas said, without smiling. "Play it again.

My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.

It don't matter about all that anyway," Armstrong added. "You think it do, but it don't. A man ain't just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his brother. You got the talent of making others your kin, your blood. Music, well that's different. I reckon it got its own worth, but it ain't a man's whole life.""Aww hell, Louis," I thought. "Ain't nothing else I want.

You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.