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"21 Edwidge Danticat Quotes & Sayings

      Haitian     /     View profile
Born: 19 January 1969. | Novelist | Writer |

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Love Rain Drizzle Starts pouring
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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.

Misery Gentle Leaves Thumbprints
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

Woman Worth Grandmother Carved
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

Write Handful Unruly Strands
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...women, brave as stars at dawn
Women Brave Stars Dawn
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I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.
Timeless waters Endless sea World
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People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

People Hopeful Biggest
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So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell in to the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the sea

Fallen Sea Hearts
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All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Hope Love Cup Waterfall
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Anger is a wasted emotion.
Anger Wasted Emotion
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No one will love you more than you love your pain.

Love One Pain
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They say behind mountains are more mountains.
Behind Mountains
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You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Learned School Pencil Paper
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The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

Women Family Death Meet
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Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

Here Sky Moon Stars
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Two mountains can never meet but perhaps you and I can meet again. I am coming to your waterfall

Mountains Meet Waterfall
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For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the future.

Life Past Future
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Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.

Fatigue Desire Story Closer
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Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

Pretend Miracles Believe
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Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.

Lose Last place Stop Looking
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Sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us”

Hope Biggest Weapon
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Edwidge Danticat Quotes & Sayings