Paradise Block Quotes

“The baby is our baby, but as soon as we saw all the things that it can do, the dull solemness of its very gaze, we wished to put it back; we wished that a muster of crows might come and take it away.”
― Alice Ash, Paradise Block

“Min has brought me a present of my own. It is a shiny pink apron. On the apron there are words, curling white and maggoty letters: 'Little lady'. Min holds the apron in front of my face until I am forced to look at it. She slips the string over my head and ties the back securely with a double knot.”
― Alice Ash, Paradise Block

“I won't open it,' I say, but I know that outside there is the black hallway and my mother, crawling on the floor.”
― Alice Ash, Paradise Block