Sally

“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!

“We couldn't find it in our hearts to find fault with him. We suffered with him.”
― V.S. Naipul

“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela