"Middle Passage" Quotes
A freed slave stows away on a 19th-century slave ship, encountering supernatural forces and moral dilemmas on his journey across the Atlantic.
fiction | 209 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Freedom is the greatest of all illusions.
The past is a new country; it’s history, and not just any old history, but a kind that we’ve never seen, lived, or heard before.
We all have a story, all of us.
The heart has its reasons, the reason has its heart.
The power of language is a world's power.
Perhaps the only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Only a fool expects to find logic in the chambers of the human heart.
There is a difference between being lost and choosing to be lost.
What we are is just this: a story. And we are one of the characters in it.
