James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

Quotes

• “But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to t...”
• “I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. ...”
• “If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made...”
• “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”