Karen Lord Quotes

Karen Lord is a Barbadian writer of speculative fiction. Her first novel, Redemption in Indigo , retells the story "Ansige Karamba the Glutton" from Senegalese folklore and her second novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds , is an example of social science fiction. Lord also writes on the sociology of religion. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. May 1968
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“Paama sat up slowly, moving as cautiously as if facing a lion who had just declared his intention not to pounce, but to have a friendly chat instead.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 15 “A Lesson on Chances and Choices” (p. 114)

“Women fell into that category of fantasies and dreams that worked well when unfulfilled but presented all kinds of problems when brought out into the real world of trial and failure.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 10 “Paama Among the Sisters, and Alton the Poet Finds His Muse” (p. 82)

“Let me tell you, I have seen men who are trying to find themselves, and I have seen men who are trying to lose themselves, but rare indeed is the man who knows exactly who he is and where he is at.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 18 “A Spider in His Parlour and a Very Eager Fly” (p. 139)

“That was the nature of chaos; its effects spanned time in ways that were not always immediately discernible, not even by beings outside of time.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 9 “A Stranger is Coming to Makendha” (p. 69)

“Ansige’s outer appearance could be deceptive, but, given enough time, he let everyone know who and what he was.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 1 “Ansige is Delayed on the Road to Makendha” (p. 10)

“His mother had been the daughter of a minor chief, and she had carefully instilled in Ansige an understanding of the importance of importance.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 1 “Ansige is Delayed on the Road to Makendha” (p. 8)

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““Never?” he said, dismayed.
“Never,” she reiterated firmly.
He nodded, pretending to be resigned, but secretly he thought that there were always ways to get around “never.””

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 17 “The Sisters in Charge, and the Trickster in Trouble” (p. 134)

“Ansige unreeled the tale of his tribulations, thoroughly ransacking the truth and then dipping into the bag of embellishment and sprinkling with a free hand.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 2 “Ansige Eats Lamb and Murders a Peacock” (p. 17)

“It was a common characteristic among the warriors—no fear of death, and only pride for their scars, but little thought of all that could happen in between those two extremes.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 18 “A Spider in His Parlour and a Very Eager Fly” (p. 136)

“Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.”

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 9 “A Stranger is Coming to Makendha” (p. 72)

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