Quotes by Esi Edugyan

She thought often of her own death, but without fear, loss having been her only belonging in this life. For years, acceptance had been her only means of survival. She knew that no matter how miserable or wretched life became, all she could do with her meek piece of time was sustain it. Decades of guilt, lost faith, the betrayal by those few people shed let herself love - it was worth enduring these things, if only for the gift of a single, exalted moment. And such moments happened, even frequently, in the lives of people wise enough to see them.

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

It dont matter about all that anyway, Armstrong added. You think it do, but it dont. A man aint 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 thats different. I reckon it got its own worth, but it aint a mans whole life.Aww hell, Louis, I thought. Aint nothing else I want.

Its like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.