“One is always at home in one's past...”
“feeling a bit like cinderella, she made it home at two minutes past one last night.”
“If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also - always, beneath the humour, which is a West Indian characteristic - a sadness: an awareness of a past that can never really be forgotten, or forgiven.”
“Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees, ... one's happiness, one's reality?”
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”