Biographical Novel Quotes

“How could I live without dancing?”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“I worked hard at fitting in and becoming an American, but then I discovered that being an American was not enough. I had to be a Black American because that’s how Americans, especially whites, saw me.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“With Wallace, Ali became one of the best-travelled young Malay men of the time.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Simon had never dreamt that he would ever be on the stage receiving the plaudits of the entire school.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“Simon was fighting against being queer; all the social and professional pressures were against it even though homosexual acts between consenting adults in private were about to be decriminalised.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“He saw the moist tenderness of Daniel's lips afresh. He wanted to feel it again.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“Simon could hardly explain that he had attacked Sidney because he was too scared to attack Barry Spence.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“Simon closed his mind to the past because of the pain of losing it and the future for fear of facing it.”
― Patrick C. Notchtree, The Clouds Still Hang

“She has to leave. She has nowhere to go. She imagines tying Rich to a chair, his hands and feet bound and his neck roped. No food, no water, no escape until he tells her everything he’s felt about her for the last four years, the whole truth until she believes him. If he talks and she knows he’s lying, she’ll wrap another coil around his neck, each one tighter than the last. Finally he’ll break down and tell her the bitter truth—that he never loved her at all, that it was only their play that excited him.”
― John Thorndike, The World Against Her Skin