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“His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“You will find, Ofilwe, that the people you strive so hard to be like will one day reject you because as much as you may pretend, you are not one of their own. Then you will turn back, but there too you will find no acceptance, for those you once rejected will no longer recognize the thing you have become. So far, too far to return. So much, too much you have changed. Stuck between two worlds, shunned by both.”
― Coconut
― Coconut
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