Esi Edugyan Quotes

#1. The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

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#2. It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

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#3. Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

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#4. Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

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#5. Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other.

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#6. She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.

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#7. Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

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#8. Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

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#9. Chip recons that he is charming as hell, and who am I to poke holes in his theory. That means that sometimes lies leave his mouth dressed like truth. He just can't help it.

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#10. The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

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#11. Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else.
She made talent sound like a damned insult.

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#12. To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

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#13. This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz

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#14. Baltimore always seems like the kind of city you either leaving or just returning to. Ain't no kinda place to hang your hat. Even as a kid I dreamed of getting out.

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#15. The only time I ever saw him untidy was after a fight. What a sight that was. James Bond run through a blender. You know the other fella probably got off worse.

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#16. Hell," he said with a grin. "It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

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#17. It ain't really Czechoslovakian,' I said, coughing. 'We used to call it the Cheque. Like, you drink it up now, you pay for it later.

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#18. Her lips was hot, like the ridge of a cooking dish.

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#19. What is luck but something made to run out.

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#20. Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.

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#21. There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience, you take from yourself.

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#22. I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

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