Quote by Dionne Brand Download Open image ““a boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat still has all the possibilities of moving”” — Dionne Brand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing. It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“My lifeless body - a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that… — Camelia C Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their own boat, it's a matter of pulling it out of the sand, and putting it in the water. But further, you… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“When the winds of life blow hard and hit your boat, you've got to adjust your sails to keep afloat.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can sit on the aft deck and never be surprised by anything again- no phone will ever ring, no one will knock that I haven't seen coming for a quarter mile. that I can go to sleep any night… — Nick Flynn Copy Share
“And what is life but a little row in a small boat, every moment leaving what we know, every stroke unable to see where… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The boat was a type called an Optimist dinghy. It is a beginner's boat. If that little boat had been able to speak, no… — Margareta Magnusson Copy Share Image
“When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from shore, you hold on to death… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been a rower of two boats. I have been here physically and somewhere else mentally. My existence is split,… — Sadia Hakim Copy Share Image
If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time.” — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“..would I have had a different life failing this embrace with broken things, iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracks in the brain, would I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does, all the lives they've hoarded, all the ghosts they've carried, all the inversions they've made for protection, all the scars and marks and records for recognition - the whole heterogeneous baggage falls out with each step… — Dionne Brand Copy Share
“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She… — Dionne Brand Copy Share
“There were Italian neighbourhood and Vietnamese neighbourhoods in this city; there are Chinese ones and Ukrainian ones and Pakistani ones and Korean ones and African ones. Name a region on the planet and there's someone from there, here. All of them sit on Ojibway land, but hardly any of them know it or care because that genealogy is wilfully untraceable… — Dionne Brand Copy Share
“I run each morning, two, three, sometimes four kilometers. Part of March, all of April, all of May. I can’t run five. I am… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious drama of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
