Sally Curtiss

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

“Ti Noel vaguely understood that his rejection by the geese was a punishment for his cowardice. Macandal had disguised himself as an animal for years to serve men, not to abjure the world of men.”
― Alejo Carpentier

“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

“Having chosen his own death, Henri Christophe would never know the corruption of his flesh, flesh fused with the very stuff of the fortress, inscribed in its architecture, integrated with its body bristling with flying buttresses. Le Bonnet del'Eveque, the whole mountains, had become the mausoleum of the first King of Haiti.”
― Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World