Karen Lord

"Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing mo…"

"Nalo Hopkinson and Karen Lord in Conversation"

"His mother had been the daughter of a minor chief, and she had carefully instilled in Ansige an understanding of the importance of importance."

"That was the nature of chaos; its effects spanned time in ways that were not always immediately discernible, not even by beings outside of time."

"Getting information out of them was like extracting gold from ore—a lot of labour and time, and why bother to do it when you know there’s a store just around the corner?"

"Paama sat up slowly, moving as cautiously as if facing a lion who had just declared his intention not to pounce, but to have a friendly chat instead."

"Ansige unreeled the tale of his tribulations, thoroughly ransacking the truth and then dipping into the bag of embellishment and sprinkling with a free hand."

"Ansige’s outer appearance could be deceptive, but, given enough time, he let everyone know who and what he was."