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1 " She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking. "
― Angela Carter , The Lady of the House of Love
2 " He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind. "
― Helen Oyeyemi , Mr. Fox
3 " she thought of the mix of kids in her class and in Melissa’s and she knew that the future could be bright. No one had tried to say she didn’t have a right to be in that school, or acted interested in who her ancestors were, but they had been interested in who she was and where she had moved from. They wanted to know what she did and wore and liked. "
― Dixie Dawn Miller Goode , Double Time: On The Oregon Trail
4 " SHE RESEARCHED WHEN everyone slept. In the dead silence, her mind worked with more clarity. No interruptions, no worries. Sometimes she even imagined that her ancestors guided her. That they reached out from the past to share their stories. “Hocus Pocus!” she thought, smiling. Her inside joke was a source of inspiration. But her imagination was not far-fetched.My second cousin, twice removed, is a family historian. She is also a lawyer. And this is why I chose her. I needed her to do me a favor. I chose her, although she is a business lawyer and not a criminal lawyer. That was fine by me. It’s not like my lawyers did a superb job at defending me. I was wrongfully executed. "
― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini , Antonio's Will
5 " Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors "
― Laila Ibrahim , Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
