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1 " She's carrying a backpack, not a suitcase, and this really is how she becomes Aisha. "
― David Chariandy , Brother
2 " Memory’s the muscle sting of now. "
3 " But of course, you can’t ever really flee. You’ll forever run the risk of being spotted, if only for a second. "
4 " But, really, Aisha was only herself. That chicken pox scar on her nose. Or that tiny dot with a tail at the edge of her pupil, a tadpole near a whirlpool of black. "
5 " A great lookout, my brother told me. One of the best in the neighbourhood, but step badly on a line, touch your hand to the wrong metal part while you're brushing up against another, and you'd burn, "
― David Chariandy
6 " We were nobodies, or else, somehow, a city. "
7 " Doesn’t matter how poor you are. You can always turn up the edge of a collar to style a bit, little things like that. You can always do things to let the world know you’re not nobody. You never know when your break is coming. "
8 " But now I glimpsed in him not only a strange and dangerous hope but also something else. There is a thing that sometimes happens between certain neighbourhood boys. It shows itself, this thing, in touched hands, in certain glances and embraces, its truth deep, undeniable, but rarely spoken or explained. Sometimes never even truly spotted. Although now, in the midst of my own thing, I could see. "
