Quotes from work
Lucy

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.

“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy

“That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.”

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy

“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.”

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy

“Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?”

Jamaica Kincaid Lucy

Source: Lucy