Mahi Binebine > Quotes

“And yet, death was still there, everywhere. We had adopted her. She lived in us and we in her. She’d emerge from our red eyes and our clenched fists for brief sallies. She’d walk in white robes on the ruins of our shanty town and return to curl up inside us. We were the house she rested in and we’d find peace leaning on her.”
― Mahi Binebine, Horses of God

“Quand la poisse vous étreint dans le ventre de votre mère, elle ne vous lâche plus.”
― Mahi Binebine, Horses of God

“Les rêves aussi sont contagieux”
― Mahi Binebine, Horses of God

“Everything seemed normal, but nothing is normal when the lion is on its knees and its claws have become useless splinters of wood; when the dying fire in its eyes inspires more pity than fear; when its gaze has turned inwards to the depths of its defeated body; when the roars of yesterday are no more than faint echoes of a life burned at both ends, heavy with every kind of excess: bitter regrets, unacknowledged defeats, resounding half-victories, great joys and sorrows, sacrifices and misgivings, too - a tumult through which angels and demons dance to the Grim Reaper's tune.”
― Mahi Binebine, Le fou du roi