Caryl Phillips > Quotes

“Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and his sense of purpose.”
― Caryl Phillips, Crossing The River

“The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away from her...she did not want this man to leave her alone. He was kind. And she feared the loneliness of dreaming”
― Caryl Phillips, Higher Ground

“I recognise the place, I feel at home here, but I don't belong. I am of, and not of, this place.”
― Caryl Phillips, A New World Order : Selected Essays

“Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.”
― Caryl Phillips, In the Falling Snow

“I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of murdering the memory.”
― Caryl Phillips, Higher Ground

“Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.”
― Caryl Phillips, Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11

“There are no paths in water. No signposts. There is no return.”
― Caryl Phillips

“He going feel like a fool and there don't be no man yet born who can deal with feeling like a damn fool.”
― Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage