Secret Son Quotes

“He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.”
― Laila Lalami, Secret Son

“His anger took many shapes: sometimes soft and familiar, like a round stone he had caressed for so long that is was perfectly smooth and polished; sometimes it was thin and sharp like a blade that could slice through anything; sometimes it had the form of a star, radiating his hatred in all directions, leaving him numb and empty inside.”
― Laila Lalami, Secret Son

“The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.”
― Laila Lalami, Secret Son