“Home cooking is anything you buy in your hometown.”

“When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.”

“Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.”

“you been shopping? no i been shopping. well what'd you buy? i bought a piston engine. well how you going to cook it? you don't cook it it's a piston engine! well your not going to eat it raw are you? oh, i never thought of that...”

“For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.”

“Let memories of your own hometown flow back to you as you read this fascinating story, "A Place called Gouyave," about the author's recollection of the characters, stories and the lessons learnt in his hometown during his youth on the Caribbean island of Grenada.”