“ I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out. Jamaica Kincaid
“ Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked s… Jamaica Kincaid
“ Among the beliefs I held about the world was that being beautiful should not matter to a woman, because it was one of those things that would go away--your beauty would go away, and there wouldn't be… Jamaica Kincaid
“ I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was th… Jamaica Kincaid
“ No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love. Jamaica Kincaid
“ I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through. Jamaica Kincaid
“ This way of behaving, this way of feeling, so hysterical, so sad, when someone has died, I don't like at all and would like to avoid. It's not as if the whole thing has not happened before, it's not a… Jamaica Kincaid
“ It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you. Jamaica Kincaid
