Untwine Quotes

“Isabelle didn't need to call my name. Not because of the twin telepathy thing people always talk about, but because we were holding hands. We were holding hands the tightest we have ever held hands in our entire lives. We were holding hands just as we had on the day we were born.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Untwine

“Our faith is a mishmash of many things. We believe in family, in music and art, but we mostly believe in each other" -Giselle”
― Edwidge Danticat, Untwine

“People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Untwine

“But there's something about music, when you feel it deeply, when you understand it so well, the way Isabelle understands it, there is something about it that makes scary things seem to disappear. If only for a little while" -Giselle”
― Edwidge Danticat, Untwine

“If there is a heaven, it should be like all the places you love or the places you've never been but wish you'd visited while you were still alive." -Giselle”
― Edwidge Danticat, Untwine

“My head fills up with images of past gatherings there: pep rallies, award ceremonies, talent shows, speaker days, career days, holiday pageants, all things that Isabelle and I attended together, even while sitting in different parts of the auditorium with our own sets of friends.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Untwine