Top 29 Esi Edugyan Quotes
#1. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#3. I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.
Esi Edugyan
#5. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#6. His voice deepened. "I miss you, too, Peanut." There was a pause between us. I didn't know what else to say to him then. My mind went blank. He mumbled something away from the phone like he was talking to someone else. "I've got to go. Stay with the others, okay?
C.L.Stone
#7. Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.
Esi Edugyan
#8. What is luck but something made to run out.
Esi Edugyan
#9. Her lips was hot, like the ridge of a cooking dish.
Esi Edugyan
#10. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#11. Hell," he said with a grin. "It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.
Esi Edugyan
#12. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#13. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#14. This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz
Esi Edugyan
#15. To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
Esi Edugyan
#16. If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.
Esi Edugyan
#18. If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
Ralph Merkle
#19. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#20. I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#21. Ain't no glory made from being dependable.
Esi Edugyan
#22. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#23. She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.
Esi Edugyan
#24. Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other.
Esi Edugyan
#25. 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.
Esi Edugyan
#27. It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
Esi Edugyan
#28. The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.
Esi Edugyan
#29. The problem with dating a model is they won't go out with you if your cars color doesn't match their outfit.
Dane Cook
