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Krik? Krak! QUOTES

1 " People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

2 " The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

3 " No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

4 " These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

5 " When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

6 " I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

7 " All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

8 " They say behind mountains are more mountains. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

9 " You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

10 " All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, manman says, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

11 " Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

12 " . “Manman tells papa, you cannot let them kill somebody just because you are afraid. Papa says, oh yes, you can let them kill somebody because you are afraid. They are the law. It is their right. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

13 " Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us” (Danticat 19). "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

14 " Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

15 " If they come into a house and there is a son and a mother there, they hold a gun to their heads. They make the son sleeps with his mother. If it is a daughter and a father, they do the same thing. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

16 " The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

17 " They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away? "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

18 " You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

19 " This is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something to leave behind even after she was gone, something that showed what she had observed in a way that no one else had and no one else would after her. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!

20 " They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman. "

― Edwidge Danticat , Krik? Krak!