# Quote — Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light

> How do you even choose what to mend when so much has already been destroyed? How could she think, she asked herself, that she could revive or save anything? (p152)

- Author: [Edwidge Danticat](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat.md)
- Book: [Claire of the Sea Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edwidge-danticat/claire-of-the-sea-light.md)
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## More from this book

> “No one will ever love you more than you love your pain,” he had replied, his words ringing even louder in the dark. (p154)

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> The morning Claire Limyè Lanmè Faustin turned seven, a freak wave, measuring between ten and twelve feet high, was seen in the ocean outside of Ville Rose. Claire's father, Nozias, a fisherman, was one of many who saw it in the distance as he walked toward his sloop. He first heard a low rumbling, like that of distant thunder, then saw a wall of water rise from the depths of the ocean, a giant blue-green tongue, trying, it seemed, to lick a pink sky. (first lines)

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> ...she was like a starfish, that she constantly needed to have a piece of her break off and walk away in order for her to become something new. (p143)

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