The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh Quotes

“don’t know how to feel. If Boysie ends up hanging it will be what he deserves for all the bad he do. But say what you want, he’s been a good father from the start. Chunksee will grieve for a long time. Me? I’ll only ever be as happy as my child.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“But then again, love’s funny. She wouldn’t be the first to think that if you loved a man plenty plenty he’d change to how you want. Waste of time. The only body you can change is you, and even that is pressure.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“How many times Boysie will break my heart so? Like he never going to choose me? Why I not good enough?”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“How you could marry a man that’s not even Christian? Eh? Answer me that. This is the example you’re setting your sisters and them?”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“It’s my snakeness that makes me hungry to mate plenty and with endless different people. For saying what I want and taking it, I’ve been called all kindna names: beast, devil, monster, whore. Normal women, good women, don’t carry on so. Like I care. Man them can’t understand why I demand the same satisfaction they get from sexing.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“Imagine, a pissing-tail crab catcher’s family thought I was too low down to come inside their two-by-four tapia house.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“Nobody ever asked the man what he wood was doing inside the maid half he age.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“All the beating up people, the pimping, the insurance scams. She’s the one pushing. It’s only money she love. He was doing good good with the little fishing and small betting. But she came and turned everything topsy turvy.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“This kirpan came with Boysie’s Sikh baap direct from the Punjab. Most of the people I knew on the estate came from Bihar, or, like my parents, Uttar Pradesh.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“But talking to Boysie over the months I realised that apart from Diwali celebrations he ain’t know one fart about being Hindu. I’m sure he doesn’t remember when last he went inside a mandir. Just like my parents, he ma and baap crossed the kala pani from India and born Boysie in Trinidad. But that is where the Indianness stop.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“That hard labour stretch left Boysie bony and with skin dark like baigan from being whole day in the hot sun.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh

“Boysie saying I is he own when two of we know that by the time he leave and reach the road he done forget me. Until that laar needs a warm hole I might as well not exist. I played like I was vex vex.”
― Ingrid Persaud, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh