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final consultation between Abdulai and Adrian.

The Memory of Love Quotes

The artist Paul Klee described drawing a picture as taking a line for a walk. I have borrowed his words to explain my approach to writing; when I write a novel it is like I am taking a thought for a walk.

Writing process Quotes

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

Childhood Quotes / Childhood memories Quotes Memory Quotes State repression Quotes

There's nothing new about this story of ours, such things happen. Love misses its mark, arrives too early or too late. Nobody dies, except in novels.

The Hired Man Quotes

Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don’t understand either.

World literature Quotes

And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state.

Love Quotes / Aminatta Quotes Forna Quotes Kai Quotes Memory Quotes

I’d always kept an eye on the house. I don’t mean doing repairs, for as the house didn’t belong to me that was not my place, but rather I’d keep watch over its decline. The changes come slowly, like watching a woman age: another line, the spread of crow’s feet, age spots rising slowly to the surface. One day the face you know is ravaged.

The Hired Man Quotes

There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy.

The Hired Man Quotes

People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.

The Hired Man Quotes

Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), "Lack of breath.

Humor Quotes The Hired Man Quotes

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

Novels Quotes

We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there

Adrian's tone suggested that the desire for something was all it took. They all live with endless possibilities, leave their homes for the sake of something new. But the dream is woven from the fabric of freedom. For desire to exist it requires the element of possibility, and that for Kai has never existed, until now...

Desire Quotes Hope Quotes / Dreams Quotes Possibility Quotes The Memory of Love Quotes

We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.

The Hired Man Quotes

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

Love Quotes / Aminatta Quotes Forna Quotes Kai Quotes Memory Quotes

At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressive as a lover, had tried to prise the pieces of him apart. Only when she failed had she finally let go, by then months had passed. She loved like she was going to war, but she was also not the kind of woman to wait for a man. Valiant in battle, noble in defeat. She walked away and never looked back

Love Quotes / Aminatta Quotes Forna Quotes Memory Quotes Nenebah Quotes

He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere past this point, but he cannot. There is nothing to do but to keep on existing, in this exact time and place. This is what hell must be like. Waiting without knowing. Not hell, but purgatory. Worse than hell.

Hell Quotes The Memory of Love Quotes

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

War Quotes / Suicide Quotes Survival Quotes The Memory of Love Quotes

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.

Behavior Quotes Breakdown of society Quotes Dishonor Quotes The Memory of Love Quotes

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Doing nothing Quotes Silence Quotes The Memory of Love Quotes

The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love.

Love Quotes / Memory Quotes The Memory of Love Quotes

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

Liars Quotes The Memory of Love Quotes

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

Literature Quotes Place Quotes