English Quotes

Family/love

Key scene 1: "My eyes find Santo, the only other sunflower among this sea of roses."

Family/love, Key scene 1:

Key scene 1: "my big brother, with another brick clenched in his fist."

Family/love

Key scene 2: "When I asked Manuela to come with me, she dropped everything"

Hate/race

Key scene 1: "every day it's a new taunt from her"

Hate/race

Key scene 1: "of the blackness of my skin…"

Hate/race

Key scene 2: "It worries me… they’ll forget their other language…"

Hate/race

Key scene 2: Zande being called Sunday just to fit in.

Belonging

Key scene 1: "no matter how hard I try, how much I learn, adapt…" - Taresai

Belonging

Key scene 1: "… somehow become a part of this culture."

Belonging

Key scene 2: "I feel lost, I think, and displaced"

Belonging

Key scene 2: "how different we are"

Belonging

Key scene 3: "It was my castle, no matter who or what I wanted to be"

Power

Key scene 1: "I want to keep this one thing for myself"

Power

Key scene 1: "I’ll pay triple that"

Power

Key scene 1: "You, Taresai, have left a mark"

Power

Key scene 2: "When Anette speaks to me I don’t feel like she sees me."

Gender

Key scene 1: "A girl is taught to carry weight before her arms are even strong enough to hold her own body."

Gender

Key scene 2: "He’s a boy"

Gender

Key scene 2: "She’s been running wild and untamed as the boys do"

Bildungsroman/learning

Key scene 1: "but my young self didn’t see beauty in the everyday"

Bildungsroman/learning

Key scene 1: "If little ugly weeds could survive in… Giza, so could I"

Bildungsroman/learning

Key scene 2: Symbolism of Akita’s hair, as she mentally breaks and stops doing her hair, but in the end heals and does her hair again.

Morals

Key scene 1: "‘I’m going to get Miss Declan back for what she did."

Morals

Key scene 1: "He seems happy with himself"

Morals

Key scene 2: "I thought I’d burn in hell… if I didn’t obey her"

Suffering/grief

Key scene 1: "I was shattered, but still I picked up my pieces"

Suffering/grief

Key scene 1: "more of a surrogate mother…"

Suffering/grief

Key scene 2: "I stay quiet as I always have"

Suffering/grief

Key scene 2: "My hill to her Everest"

Suffering/grief

Key scene 3: "The clouds thunder long before the rain starts to pour."

Suffering/grief

Key scene 3: "clouded in complex hues of grey"