Kahvenin Tarih Esi Quotes

This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz ~ Esi Edugyan

Hell," he said with a grin. "It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive. ~ Esi Edugyan

It ain't fair. Gifts is divided so damn unevenly. Like God just left his damn sack of talents in a ditch somewhere and said, Go help yourselves, ladies and gents.Them's that get there first can help themselves to the biggest ones. In every other walk of life, a jack can work to get what he want. but ain't no amount of toil going get you a lick more talent than you born with. Geniuses ain't made, brother, they just is. and I just was not. ~ Esi Edugyan

But for the rest of her life Esi would see a smile
on a white face and remember the one the soldier gave her before taking her
to his quarters, how white men smiling just meant more evil was coming with
the next wave. ~ Yaa Gyasi

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up. ~ Esi Edugyan

It don't matter about all that anyway," Armstrong added. "You think it do, but it don't. A man ain't just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his brother. You got the talent of making others your kin, your blood. Music, well that's different. I reckon it got its own worth, but it ain't a man's whole life."
"Aww hell, Louis," I thought. "Ain't nothing else I want. ~ Esi Edugyan

How strange it felt to be alive, and whole, and astonishingly worth saving. ~ Esi Edugyan

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth. ~ Esi Edugyan

Ain't no man can outrun his fate. ~ Esi Edugyan

Ain't no glory made from being dependable. ~ Esi Edugyan

It ain't really Czechoslovakian,' I said, coughing. 'We used to call it the Cheque. Like, you drink it up now, you pay for it later. ~ Esi Edugyan

There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience, you take from yourself. ~ Esi Edugyan

What is luck but something made to run out. ~ Esi Edugyan

How could he have treated me so, he who congratulated himself on his belief that I was his equal? I had never been his equal. To him, perhaps, any deep acceptance of equality was impossible. He saw only those who were there to be saved, and those did the saving. ~ Esi Edugyan

Now, hearing Tansi speak, Afua resumed her crying, but it was as though no one heard. These tears were a matter of routine. They came for all of the women. They dropped until the clay below them turned to mud. At night, Esi dreamed that if they all cried in unison, the mud would turn to river and they could be washed away into the Atlantic. ~ Yaa Gyasi

She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square. ~ Esi Edugyan

Life holds a sanctity for them we can scarcely begin to imagine; it therefore struck them as absurd that someone would choose to end it. ~ Esi Edugyan

I was nothing to you. You never saw me as equal. You were more concerned that slavery should be a moral stain upon white men than by the actual damage it wreaks on black men." Even as I spoke these words, I could hear what a false picture they painted, and also how they were painfully true. ~ Esi Edugyan

The dead have no compassion for the living. ~ Esi Edugyan