151 Quotes by Marlon James

He’s from a generation that never even expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare climb higher. That’s the problem with midway. Up is everything and down just means all the white people want to party on your street on Sunday night to feel realness. Midway is nowhere.

Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.

The child is dead. There is nothing left to know.

I like to believe that everything in my house, from towels all the same colour, to the coffee machine where I press one button, is there just to make my life simple, but I’m realizing that they are all there to make sure I don’t think.

Look at this leper accusing another leper of leprosy.

Then coffin, black with silver handles with the dead boy in a black velvet suit. If you’re never gonna sweat why not go out in winter style?

Dead. It sounds final but it’s a word missing an ing.

The moon moved in so close she eavesdropped on us.

You ever feel like home is the one place you can’t go back to? It’s like you promise yourself when you got out of bed and combed your hair that this evening, when I get back I’ll be a different woman in a new place. And now you can’t go back because the house expects something from you.