# Brown Girl In The Ring

- Author: [Nalo Hopkinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nalo-hopkinson/brown-girl-in-the-ring

## Quotes

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

p. 230

> “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

> “Mami,” Ti-Jeanne said, “I should go and get Baby. He ain’t take to Tony.”
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> “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

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

p. 232