"The Water Dancer" Quotes
"The Water Dancer" follows Hiram Walker, a man born into slavery with a mysterious power, as he embarks on a journey toward freedom and uncovering his family's hidden past.
fiction | 403 pages | Published in 2019
Quotes
I am consoled only by the fact that I am not alone in this sad condition.
But there is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind—wrapped tight like skin.
I had never felt that way before, never considered that I could feel that way.
The truth was a room. The room was locked. It was my job to find the key.
But to see that there is a world beyond what we can touch or measure, that is what hope is.
It is the haunt of history, this curse of blackness.
Some of us came from places where your mind is never free to wander.
Sometimes a person can do something that changes the world. Yes, that’s a grand thing, a grand thing.
You got to make a way out of no way.
The master was the one who could not see his own chains.
