““Mami,” Ti-Jeanne said, “I should go and get Baby. He ain’t take to Tony.”
“Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can’t always have what he want.””

—  Nalo Hopkinson, book Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 4 (p. 62)

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