Ingrid Persaud > Quotes

“And who can’t bring peace or add a little comfort to my life can move right along”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“It’s only when you’re at the bottom of the well and calling for help that you find out who will throw a rope.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“Not every day you can carry your own bag of cocoa. That’s why we have friends.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“People busy swallowing one set of drugs to cope with life when what they need is a regular dose of the sea.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“Miss Betty, relaxing is not a crime. Live a little. Best to do things while you still have your own teeth in your mouth.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“But what doesn’t come out in the wash will come out in the rinse.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“God is love, yes. I didn’t have time to say crick crack, monkey break he back for a piece of pomerac, and boom, the room gone.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“New broom might sweep clean but it’s the old broom that know all the little corners.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“had more to say about how he was always talking up England and look how his Windrush ass reached back right here.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“If I drop down dead today I want to know I didn’t hide from life.”
― Ingrid Persaud

“It’s my snakeness that makes me hungry to mate plenty and with endless different people. For saying what I want and taking it, I’ve been called all kindna names: beast, devil, monster, whore. Normal women, good women, don’t carry on so. Like I care. Man them can’t understand why I demand the same satisfaction they get from sexing.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“Boysie saying I is he own when two of we know that by the time he leave and reach the road he done forget me. Until that laar needs a warm hole I might as well not exist. I played like I was vex vex.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“All the beating up people, the pimping, the insurance scams. She’s the one pushing. It’s only money she love. He was doing good good with the little fishing and small betting. But she came and turned everything topsy turvy.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“But then again, love’s funny. She wouldn’t be the first to think that if you loved a man plenty plenty he’d change to how you want. Waste of time. The only body you can change is you, and even that is pressure.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“That hard labour stretch left Boysie bony and with skin dark like baigan from being whole day in the hot sun.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“Life and death come as one. They can’t separate.”
― Ingrid Persaud

“I can honestly say that after catching my ass on earth I thought I was done. I didn’t know that when I dead I go be hustling for house and land again.”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“know the saying all food good to eat but all talk ain’t good to talk?”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“But talking to Boysie over the months I realised that apart from Diwali celebrations he ain’t know one fart about being Hindu. I’m sure he doesn’t remember when last he went inside a mandir. Just like my parents, he ma and baap crossed the kala pani from India and born Boysie in Trinidad. But that is where the Indianness stop.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“don’t know how to feel. If Boysie ends up hanging it will be what he deserves for all the bad he do. But say what you want, he’s been a good father from the start. Chunksee will grieve for a long time. Me? I’ll only ever be as happy as my child.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“This kirpan came with Boysie’s Sikh baap direct from the Punjab. Most of the people I knew on the estate came from Bihar, or, like my parents, Uttar Pradesh.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“Imagine, a pissing-tail crab catcher’s family thought I was too low down to come inside their two-by-four tapia house.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“Nobody ever asked the man what he wood was doing inside the maid half he age.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“So, what I tasting? Something must be wrong with my mouth. How I tasting salt so? You know my pressure high and you giving me salt? Like you want to kill me? Eh?”
― Ingrid Persaud, Love After Love

“How you could marry a man that’s not even Christian? Eh? Answer me that. This is the example you’re setting your sisters and them?”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“How many times Boysie will break my heart so? Like he never going to choose me? Why I not good enough?”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh