55 Quotes by Esi Edugyan

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other.

She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.

Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.

Today you ain't no kind of horn player you don't acknowledge some debt to Hieronymus Falk. He was one of the pioneers: a German Louis Armstrong, if you will.

The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect.

...it was then I recognized that my own values --- the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman --- they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

We was all of us free, brother. For that night at least, we was free.