“Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it”
Marlon James“We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.”
Marlon James“I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.”
Marlon James“I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.”
Marlon James“That’s the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.”
Marlon James“Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike.”
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women“Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.”
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women“Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away.”
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings“hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.”
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings“Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it”
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings“Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope.”
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings