Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads) Quotes

“Den was a nasty piece of work, and had only got nastier as he'd grown up. It really wasn't his fault, though. As is so often the way, he'd grown up in a toxic household and didn't know who to talk to, or how to express his emotions. The older he got, the angrier he got at life, and blamed everyone around him for it.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“It's fair to say that nobody could really remember what happened at the beginning. But when you throw hormones and the stress of school and peer pressure into the mix, fiction becomes fact. Rumours and gossip become truths.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story