An Untamed State Quotes

“I am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“When he finished talking, I said, “Your mother did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like my father.” I said, “I did not deserve the unwanted attentions of a man like you. It is often women who pay the price for what men want.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“My mother has often told me there are some things you cannot tell a man who loves you, things he cannot handle knowing.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“It is an amazing thing,” my father once told me after Christophe was born, “how much a child loves a parent. That kind of love terrifies me.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“I do not love easy.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“because sometimes, to find home, you must first go farther afield.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“Once upon a time, my life was a fairy tale and then I was stolen from everything I’ve ever loved. There was no happily ever after. After days of dying, I was dead.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“People love a real tragedy when they think it cannot happen to them.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“When I tried to push him away, he only held on to me more tightly. I have always appreciated how he never lets me go. I need that. My natural instinct is for flight and the safety of solitude.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“Girl children are not safe in a world where there are men. They need to learn to be strong. There”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“Kenbe fèm,” she said. Hold steady. Stay strong.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“She grabbed me and pulled me into a warm embrace. Just as quickly she pushed me away. She said, “Thank you for getting on my nerves for so long,” and I said, “You’re welcome, Lorraine.” We have talked three or four times a week ever since. She is family.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“I made my choice. There is nothing you cannot do when you are no one.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“Mona is my best friend. Wherever she has gone, the whole of our lives, I have tried to follow. Michael and I moved to Miami because she was there. Wherever she is feels more like home.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“My brother tried to sag his jeans until a stranger in the airport grabbed him by the ears and hitched his pants up to their proper place, sucking her teeth and shaking her head.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“The mother kills one child to feed twelve, and one child to feed eleven, and one child to feed ten until she is left with but one child, whom she also slaughters because she too hungers. Finally, she returns to the middle of a cornfield where she slaughtered her other children, where the bones of their thirteen bodies lay. She slits her own throat because she cannot bear the burden of having done what needed to be done. After telling me this story, Elsa said, “A West Indian woman always faces such choices.” The”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“I looked plenty close, Mireille, and saw many beautiful things but I also saw terrible things. I can’t pretend otherwise. You shouldn’t expect me to.” “Right,”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“the empty whisper of soft hands preparing to do hard things.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“Americans are so fond of confession without considering the consequences. I didn’t”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“Sons are different, my mother says. They always look for home somewhere else. Daughters, though, a mother can count on. Daughters always come home.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“There was the right thing to do. Michael knew that.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“This is not how you were raised,” Glen said, “and I think that’s all I really need to say about the way you’re acting.” Michael”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“There’s nothing easy about what you’re dealing with but you need to face that and step up.” Michael”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“There was nothing you could do but what you did. Do you hear me?” “This”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“The older I get the less the world makes sense.” “I”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“You know, Fabienne, being American is feeling pretty good right now. This would have never happened to us in Miami, or anywhere in the States and don’t you forget that.” Fabienne”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“He wanted away from Mireille’s parents, all these people who said one thing and meant another. “You”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“There would be no evidence collected, no trial, no justice and without justice, there was no crime.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“There would always be ransoms for any dignity or peace.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“It is often women who pay the price for what men want.” The”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State