Quotes by : Jamaica Kincaid

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were....

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't....

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see....

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the....

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets....

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for....

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if....