Edugyan Esi Quotes & Sayings

What is luck but something made to run out. — Esi Edugyan

It ain't really Czechoslovakian,' I said, coughing. 'We used to call it the Cheque. Like, you drink it up now, you pay for it later. — Esi Edugyan

Hell," he said with a grin. "It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive. — Esi Edugyan

Love forgives all things. You don't even need to ask. — Lisa Kleypas

Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express. — Rob Corddry

Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other. — Esi Edugyan

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute. — Esi Edugyan

Ain't no man can outrun his fate. — Esi Edugyan

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth. — Esi Edugyan

Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room. — Esi Edugyan

It don't matter about all that anyway," Armstrong added. "You think it do, but it don't. A man ain't just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his brother. You got the talent of making others your kin, your blood. Music, well that's different. I reckon it got its own worth, but it ain't a man's whole life."
"Aww hell, Louis," I thought. "Ain't nothing else I want. — Esi Edugyan

Do you still call it talent, if it blooms without any kind of nurturing? That's got to be something else.
She made talent sound like a damned insult. — Esi Edugyan

Chip recons that he is charming as hell, and who am I to poke holes in his theory. That means that sometimes lies leave his mouth dressed like truth. He just can't help it. — Esi Edugyan

Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany. — Esi Edugyan

And all the while the burning lime Eats flesh and bone away, It eats the brittle bone by night, And the soft flesh by day, It eats the flesh and bone by turns, But it eats the heart alway. — Oscar Wilde

The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine. — Esi Edugyan

Ain't no glory made from being dependable. — Esi Edugyan

All the world complain now a days of a press of trivial duties & engagements which prevents their employing themselves on some higher ground they know of, - but undoubtedly if they were made of the right stuff to work on that higher ground, provided they were released from all those engagements - they would now at once fulfill the superior engagement, and neglect all the rest, as naturally as they breathe. They would never be caught saying that they had no time for this when the dullest man knows that this is all that he has time for. — Henry David Thoreau

Her lips was hot, like the ridge of a cooking dish. — Esi Edugyan

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything. — George Sand

It ain't fair. Gifts is divided so damn unevenly. Like God just left his damn sack of talents in a ditch somewhere and said, Go help yourselves, ladies and gents.Them's that get there first can help themselves to the biggest ones. In every other walk of life, a jack can work to get what he want. but ain't no amount of toil going get you a lick more talent than you born with. Geniuses ain't made, brother, they just is. and I just was not. — Esi Edugyan

The only time I ever saw him untidy was after a fight. What a sight that was. James Bond run through a blender. You know the other fella probably got off worse. — Esi Edugyan

I am the Cosmic Ocean of sound and the little wave of the body vibration in it. — Paramahansa Yogananda

There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience, you take from yourself. — Esi Edugyan

The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo. — Ian McKellen

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up. — Esi Edugyan

She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square. — Esi Edugyan

This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz — Esi Edugyan

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal. — Esi Edugyan

Baltimore always seems like the kind of city you either leaving or just returning to. Ain't no kinda place to hang your hat. Even as a kid I dreamed of getting out. — Esi Edugyan

Jazz. Here in Germany it become something worse than a virus. We was all of us damn fleas, us Negroes and Jews and low-life hoodlums, set on playing that vulgar racket, seducing sweet blond kids into corruption and sex. It was a plague sent out by the dread black hordes, engineered by the Jews. Us Negroes, see, we was only half to blame - we just can't help it. Savages just got a natural feel for filthy rhythms, no self-control to speak of. But the Jews, brother, now they cooked up this jungle music on purpose. All part of their master plan to weaken Aryan youth, corrupt its janes, dilute its bloodlines. — Esi Edugyan

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe. — Esi Edugyan

It had been a beautiful day for an outdoor ceremony, with the kind of lucid weather she hoped to have at her own funeral. She thought often of her own death, but without fear, loss having been her only belonging in this life. For years, acceptance had been her only means of survival. She knew that no matter how miserable or wretched life became, all she could do with her meek piece of time was sustain it. Decades of guilt, lost faith, the betrayal by those few people she'd let herself love - it was worth enduring these things, if only for the gift of a single, exalted moment. And such moments happened, even frequently, in the lives of people wise enough to see them. — Esi Edugyan