Nalo Hopkinson

Quotes

1. Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.

   p. 179

2. 

   She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!

   p. 314

3. 

   Suck all the juice this life will give! (p33)

4. 

   She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.

   p. 217

5. 

   She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

   p. 230

6. 

   Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.

   p. 326

7. 

   “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.

   p. 220

8. 

   Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time. (p179)

9. 

   “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.”

   p. 62

10. 

    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.

    p. 104

11. 

    Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

    p. 232

12. 

    She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.

    Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)

    p. 222