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“I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no longer a place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“The way she only inhabited the person she thought of as herself if she was feeling someone else’s pain. Their grief. Their anger. Their debilitating joy. Their delusory love. Their cruel and unrelenting fate. How beautifully she could carry the suffering of others, wearing their misery so she didn’t have to acknowledge her own...Translating the human experience which was itself full of badness, so that she never had to hold her own badness for too long.”
― Gifted & Talented
― Gifted & Talented
“I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Chantelle has three older brothers. Their parents are divorced, so they spend the weekdays at their mother and stepfather’s house, and the weekends at their father’s house. She says that it’s fun to belong to two places. I know what she means.”
― Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago
― Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago
“It hit me pretty hard, how there’s no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and you’re on your own.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
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