Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

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Since Baby's birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

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Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.

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Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

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I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

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She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!

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She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

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It was time to be honest with myself. To survive all the shame this world will throw at you, you have to hold yourself tall, look your accuser straight in the eye. Even if it's your own face looking back at you.

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Children, I said to her. For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don't find?

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Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.

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Mami, Ti-Jeanne said, I should go and get Baby. He ain't take to Tony.
Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can't always have what he want.

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She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.

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This was a thing she'd not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was personal, inescapable, like the scent that rose in the steam from her own self when she stepped into a hot bath. They had broken open the animal's secret body just to eat it.

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I can't keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain't? I have to decide what I want to do for myself. No answer. It wasn't going to tell her.

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