Dani > Dani's Quotes

“I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either- or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

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

“You think as they do that suffering from cruelty or escaping it is a matter of choice or means, when it is matter of power.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“Nyka was like a man coming back from things I was yet to go through.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“Being a fool is a curse too”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

“To be a man you do as man do. Master one thing and you can fail at everything else, for to be a man is to fail at everything else. Here is the one thing. What men do in all things, more than anything, is take up space, whether he be priest, king, beggar, or hunter. Whether he be living or dead. More space than he need, and more space than he will use.”
― Marlon James, Moon Witch, Spider King