Nalo Hopkinson

Quotes

• ““Mami,” Ti-Jeanne said, “I should go and get Baby. He ain’t take to Tony.”“Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can’t always have what he want.””
• ““I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.”
• “She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.”
• “Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.”
• “This was a thing she’d not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was personal, inescapable, like the scent that rose in the steam from her own self when she stepped into a hot bath. They had broken open the animal’s secret body just to eat it.”
• “Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.”

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