I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to th… - Edwidge Danticat

They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away? ("Children of the Sea")

"I think it is very good that she has learned to read," I said. "It is her own freedom." (chapter 17 p118)

Well, I think that when I’m writing about Haiti, I’m just writing one long, ongoing story. But I really did feel, like a lot of people did, that after the earthquake, there were suddenly two Haitis: the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So I feel that I’ve been writing about the first one much longer. And writing about the earthquake... it’s been such a short period of time and it’s still such a raw experience that the few things that I’ve written about it, I feel like I’ve written them to process it myself.