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“Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“But sometimes when you’re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“because people so poor that they can’t even afford shame and I wait.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike.”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women

“People who say they don’t have a choice just too coward to choose.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Never think about the past, that shit will fuck you up and you cant fuck it back”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“..time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“Some people may be brokenhearted not because they’ve been hurt but because they’ve never found someone who mattered enough to hurt them.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“Maybe what you need is less pride and more courage. Pride is the nickname we give fear.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads

“The feeling of home isn’t tied to one place only.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt