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Quotes from The Farming of Bones — Edwidge Danticat

born 1969 Haiti

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'Freedom is a passing thing,' a man said. 'Someone can always come and snatch it away.' (p212)

The Farming of Bones (1998)

'Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.' (p145)

The Farming of Bones (1998)

I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share. (p252)

The Farming of Bones (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edwidge Danticat (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.