Zimbabwean Writer Quotes

“A fair lady I suppose,
you balanced his spiritual and material being.
He symbolized you as infinite love forever together
and the dark cloud and ravens sung a dirge
Oh! Annabel Lee.”
― Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche , Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub

“She was that lass I loved to admire when she plucked roses in her Charlotte novels
she beamed like sunflower, when she laughed at romantic lines,
I loved her little sequin nuggets those fine details about her, those indefinite little prose.
Her smell made me wonder, Do books have frankincense?
I loved to stare at her favourite book by”
― Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche , Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub

“Hannah
do you even know the meaning of evening silences?
Watching the ebb, the halo hanging upon your eyes?
Hannah
do we even know the love we twined in those pines?
We walked with veils like of virgin shyness?
Those constellation, those stars that gleam and thrill,
those seamless touches, those eyes, shyness and sheen,
those Hannah,
those nights painted by Vincent Van Gogh, those nights I took you in my arms and held you like an eg”
― Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche , Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub

“She sings it wrong because she doesn't know all the English words because she doesn't speak the right English because she didn't go to school, but I don't correct her since you can't tell an adult nothing. The truth of it is that the song says My sins were higher than a mountain when the Lord sanctified me not sacrificed me, like Mother of Bones sings. I don't go to school anymore because all the teachers left to teach over in South Africa and Botswana and Namibia and them, where there's better money, but I haven't forgotten the things I learned.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names