Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.”Patricia Briggs.

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in a lifetime.

Both slaves had been oiled until their flesh shined like polished ebony, outlining every detail of their muscles.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.

I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist."(Voltaire)