Becoming Abigail Quotes

“This is the prevalence of ritual. To remember something that cannot be forgotten.”
― Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail

“She who had been taken and taken and taken. And now the one time she took for herself, the one time she had choice in the matter, it was taken away.”
― Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail

“Abigail read in Reader’s Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes. Like the way we live our lives, she thought. Bumble through doing the best we can and hoping that some benevolence keeps us from crashing.”
― Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail

“Thoughts of Abigail filled her world. By all accounts she had bee a tall, thin, woman, whose eyes held a power beyond the black pools of er irises. Tall, thin, and dark, she, this Abigail, looked so much like the other that her father had named her the same She was more ghost than her mother, however, moving with the quality of light breathing though a house in which the only footprints in the dust were those of her dead mother. Even her laughter, at once wild and reigned in, was all Abigail.”
― Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail

“Abigail read in Reader’s Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes.”
― Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail