The Intended Quotes

“I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.”
― David Dabydeen, The Intended

“Words are so full of cleverness', Joseph said, 'I wish I could learn how to read and write them. Every word is cat with nine separate lives, it come up to you for tickling and stroking and feeding, or it wander away and walk along neighbour's garden fence, or it crouch and concentrate when it see bird or it fall asleep under the bonnet of nearest parked car.”
― David Dabydeen, The Intended