Sofia

“I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“The devil has taken possession of everybody in Ilhéus. All they think about is money and bigness. They’re on the road to hell. Things are going to start happening…”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhéus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove burns of her arms. But the fine clothes rarely left the closet”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

“If they come into a house and there is a son and a mother there, they hold a gun to their heads. They make the son sleeps with his mother. If it is a daughter and a father, they do the same thing.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!