Quotes from book

Brown Girl in the Ring

“She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.”

Nalo Hopkinson book Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 230)

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”

Nalo Hopkinson book Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring

“Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.”

Nalo Hopkinson book Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 232)

““I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.”

Nalo Hopkinson book Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 12 (p. 220)

““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)