9 quotes found
“The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.”
“The grief of widowhood, of losing a husband and only to be harassed by his brothers, remained pressed on her.”
“It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.”
“You know, Tsitsi, you are so quick to point out that you are not a prostitute. I just want to laugh because you are just falling into rank. You all should spare us your morality that lauds women ov...”
“The house may have been impressive in stature, but having gasped as they drove up the driveway, she had been disappointed by the interior. It was so bare. Lacking in things. She was mystified by th...”
“Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation with degreed children and still broke, had thought-convinced themselves-that ...”
“You look at me and judge me. And I just want to ask, for what? I am in full control. No one has a gun to my head. Why can't this be my profession,one I have chosen for myself? I tell you prostitute...”
“Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true”
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and ...”
