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"Perhaps that was all a Jamaican needed: adaptability, watchfulness and a rootedness in the present."

"Oh, shut the fuck up. Middle class guilt. So boring and predictable."

"It had been better to regard them as an army of ants, existing only in the collective, but as he sat beside the dying woman, he was no longer able to."

"It was true her ankles were not fine and he worried about her lustiness in bed - surely her enthusiasm was unladylike - but other aspects of his fantasy were in place."

"He had always felt blacks to be different from white people, wanting different things, fit for different, lesser occupations, but watching the scene by the fire, he felt himself to be the weaker version of humanity."

"The Bannisters were the only white family in the village. John refused to let that depress him. He told himself he was able to live alone with his books, his Bible, and his God..."

"The only way to process this deed was to regard the woman on the ground as an animal, like the hog to be butchered for dinner that afternoon. Then unbidden, unwanted, came the thought: no hog would be beaten like that."

"She might be free or still a slave, but he was sure any man could have her."

"If anything conferred ownership, shouldn't that be birth?"

"When she walked an American street, no one made remarks about her colour, she was not a target for panhandlers, no judgments were made before she opened her mouth."

liking it so far. love her writing.

Book Two Genesis