Carson / Sonny Quotes in Homegoing
How she could put his skin to good use, be less cautious if she were him. If she could, she would put her voice in his body, in his skin.
He was mad at her because he didn’t have a father, and she was mad at him because he’d become as absent as his own.
“We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.” She swept her hand in front of her, as though she were trying to catch all of Harlem in it, all of New York, all of America.
Carson / Sonny Quotes in Homegoing
How she could put his skin to good use, be less cautious if she were him. If she could, she would put her voice in his body, in his skin.
He was mad at her because he didn’t have a father, and she was mad at him because he’d become as absent as his own.
“We can’t go back to something we ain’t never been to in the first place. It ain’t ours anymore. This is.” She swept her hand in front of her, as though she were trying to catch all of Harlem in it, all of New York, all of America.
