Prisoner's Wife Quotes

#1. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

Junot Diaz

#2. And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

Nazim Hikmet

#3. I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

Jim Drain

#4. I think it would have to be the way that my sister looks at you when you can't see it."

"Yeah? And how's that?" he asked, very interested in the answer.

"Oh, you know," she said coolly, "like you're the air she needs to breathe.

L.A. Kuehlke

#5. They were so tired, in fact, that they didn't notice the stranger who had followed them back, watching from the trees as they made their way home.

Jonathan Ballagh

#6. Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.

Karen Healey

#7. Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!

Liane Moriarty

#8. He brought both hands up and said, You can speak the old-fashioned way. I can hear you, remember? I blinked at him and after a few seconds brought my hands up. If it's okay with you, I'd like to speak your language. I smiled a small smile.

Mia Sheridan

#9. Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

Danny Boyle