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An Untamed State QUOTES

An Untamed State QUOTES

1 " I looked plenty close, Mireille, and saw many beautiful things but I also saw terrible things. I can’t pretend otherwise. You shouldn’t expect me to.” “Right, "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

2 " Girl children are not safe in a world where there are men. They need to learn to be strong. There "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

3 " It is often women who pay the price for what men want. "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

4 " I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people have to claw for what they need and still have nothing to hold. My "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

5 " Until that moment, Michael had not understood the vastness of the world and how small a place he held in it, "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

6 " What is truly terrifying is the exact knowledge of what will come and being unable to save yourself from it. Grabbing "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

7 " I wanted to tell him I saw the exact same things he did, that this country was a lot for anyone to take, but it was easier to pretend I didn’t. Back "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

8 " How could I forget? We had a blast but we were surrounded by misery. That is hard to take. I’m just being honest.” “Michael, "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

9 " I don’t understand women like you,” he said, winding down. “You could have made things easier for yourself. Would it be so hard to play nice with me?” “I don’t understand men like you. You could have made things easier for me.” “You "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

10 " You people are all the same. You live in your grand homes looking down on us in the gutter. You think you control everything and can have anything.” “There "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

11 " I ran through these streets and thought, “This is a Haiti I have never seen or known.” It was a Haiti no one should have to know. I "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

12 " People like you always choose to absolve yourselves. You are complicit even if you do not actively contribute to the problem because you do nothing to solve it.” I "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

13 " I stared at the woman who betrayed me. I shouted, “How could you? We are both daughters of Dessalines.” She stood perfectly still. She did not blink. She did not look away with her dry eyes. By "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

14 " The mother kills one child to feed twelve, and one child to feed eleven, and one child to feed ten until she is left with but one child, whom she also slaughters because she too hungers. Finally, she returns to the middle of a cornfield where she slaughtered her other children, where the bones of their thirteen bodies lay. She slits her own throat because she cannot bear the burden of having done what needed to be done. After telling me this story, Elsa said, “A West Indian woman always faces such choices.” The "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

15 " I made my choice. There is nothing you cannot do when you are no one. "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

16 " And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had repaid her with such staggering deceit. "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

17 " One thing he had learned in this life—there were always barbarians at both sides of the gate. He "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

18 " They wanted to break me. It was not personal. I was not broken. This "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

19 " There would be no evidence collected, no trial, no justice and without justice, there was no crime. "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State

20 " He wanted away from Mireille’s parents, all these people who said one thing and meant another. “You "

― Roxane Gay , An Untamed State