Edwidge Danticat Breath Eyes Memory Quotes

#1. Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Ariana Franklin

#2. I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

Edwidge Danticat

#3. Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.

Jane Ridley

#4. Mhisery took a deep breath, gave a small smirk along with a wink and said, "What are you waiting for? The South to rise again, fuck me!

Shyloh Morgan

#5. I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

Eric Andre

#6. Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Albert Einstein

#7. To my grandmother, chagrin was a genuine physical disease. Like a hurt leg or a broken arm. To treat chagrin, you drank tea from leaves that only my grandmother and other old wise women could recognize.

Edwidge Danticat

#8. I wonder if in part why so many people are angry at Microsoft is not just because their products frustrate them so much, but also because this frustration is ignored. The computer makes people feel like they are dummies, when in fact it is the computer that is stupid.

Rosalind Picard

#9. If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.

Peter L. Bernstein