I’ve read three of her books now, and they always teach me something new and push me to do some research. Isabel Allende never fails to remind me why I love historical fiction and makes me question why I haven’t already read everything she’s written. (from Island Beneath the Sea, pages 121-122) Gambo was prideful, and there is no greater danger for a slave than pride.
I love you more than anyone, more than my father and his five wives, who were my mothers, more than my brothers and my sisters, more than all of them together, but not more than my honor.” A warrior does what he has to do, that is more important than love, I understand that. “We will be free, Zarité, and we will be together forever. I think that he put off his flight for me, for the way we looked at each other, the messages of little stones in the henhouse, the treats he stole for me in the kitchen, the anticipation of embracing each other that was like the prickling of pepper over all our bodies, and for those rare moments when we were alone and could touch.
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