Edwidge Danticat Quotes and Sayings
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“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”
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“Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.”
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“People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.”
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“The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don’t want to lose them.”
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“It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.”
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“When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”
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“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”
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“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”
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“For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.”
-- Edwidge Danticat