Quote by Marlon James Download Open image ““This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning,”” — Marlon James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Embedded in their psyche was the story of what had happened to the world, and the boys felt glorious to be on the other… — Pernell Plath Meier Copy Share Image
“The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“It didn’t matter which side you were on. It was an empty, cavernous world in which young boys groped around in the dark, dreading… — Farida Karodia Copy Share Image
“Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The presence of the other boys did not comfort me; our dead come for their vengeance regardless if witnesses.” — Madeleine Miller Copy Share Image
“The boys spoke in loud, angry voices about tyranny and freedom. The girls watched the boys strut. The ancient, animal story, the same whether… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Nobody falls that way without being pushed. I know. And I know how it feels and looks, a body that falls fighting air all… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“I miss you, sister," he say. "I miss me too," she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when to blow… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“The white man say we’re fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I” — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Nineteen seventy-six come and bring an election with it. The man who bring guns to the ghetto made it clear, that there is no… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“She not black, she mulatto. Mulatto, mulatto, mulatto. Maybe she be family to both and to hurt white man just as bad as hurting… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
