"Miguel Street" Quotes
"Miguel Street" is a vibrant collection of interconnected stories depicting the lives, struggles, and dreams of residents in a working-class neighborhood in Trinidad.
fiction | 222 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
The important thing is to be always thinking of something.
There is a great deal of good in people. In some it is dormant, but it is there.
The most beautiful word in the English language is 'cellar-door.'
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I was waiting for the idea of home to come to me, for someone to say it, and I realized that it wasn't necessary. I could carry it with me. I could go to a place and be the idea of home.
It isn't money itself that causes greed, but the love of money.
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum!' because he could see no more.
