"Jazz" Quotes
A love triangle in 1920s Harlem leads to a shocking act of violence and its haunting aftermath.
fiction | 229 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
You are my face; I am yours. You are my own.
I'm telling you, that's not the same as love. It's not the same as falling.
What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door?
Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you?
I'm not sure what I'm feeling. I'm not sure of anything. I don't know anything. I don't want to know anything.
What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
You can't always count on a happy ending.
The main reason she had to leave was to avoid the people she loved.





