Salı, Ağustos 30, 2016

A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James


"In Jamaica, what don't go so, go near so."

"Dead people never stop talking. Maybe because death is not death at all, just a detention after school."

"I see seven people in one room and one pregnant and people fucking anyway because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait."

"And killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness."

"Whamperer tastes just like a Whopper, minus the taste. Even the lettuce knows it can do better."

"The wife finally came around the fact that as long as we're married there are just some things she will never know and she had to get used to what all our wives get used to. Knowing two out of every four facts. Five out of every ten trips. One out of every five deaths."

"Me have rule with woman. If your titty prettier and your body hotter than my women, I'll deal with you. Otherwise fuck off."

"This is the first mistake God make. Time. God was a fool to create time. It's the one thing that even he run out of."

"A man who know him have enemy must be on guard at all times. A man who know him have enemy must sleep with one eye open. But when a man have too many enemies he soon flatten them all down to one level, forget how to tell them apart and start to think every enemy is the same enemy."

"The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it."

"God puts earth far away from heaven because even he can's stand the smell of dead flesh. Death is not a soul catcher or a spirit, it's a wind with no warmth, a crawling sickness."

"Chuck. It is like Chip, Pat, Buck or Jack. I just love these one-punch American names, they sound like apple pie and easy money and you utter them once with so little effort and you're done."

"Sometimes I have to remind him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain."

"People with no plan wait and see. People with a plan see and wait for the right time. The world is not a ghetto and a ghetto is not the world. People in the ghetto suffer because there be people who live for making them suffer. Good time is bad time for somebody too."

"Jamaica can shoot through your veins and it become like every dark sweet thing that is not good for you."

"I used to think old was the first time you bent over and grunted ugh when you straightened back up. Now old is running into enemies too old to fight, where all you got left from an old war is fucking nostalgia. And any kind of nostalgia is something to drink not shoot over."