Sign in with Facebook
“The hood was strangely comforting, but comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“I didn’t have any friends. I didn’t know any kids besides my cousins. I wasn’t a lonely kid—I was good at being alone. I’d read books, play with the toy that I had, make up imaginary worlds. I lived inside my head. I still live inside my head. To this day you can leave me alone for hours and I’m perfectly happy entertaining myself. I have to remember to be with people.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that's not how people are.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“He liked to be liked by the world, which made his abuse even harder to deal with. Because if you think someone is a monster and the whole world says he’s a saint, you begin to think that you’re the bad person”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“People say all the time that they’d do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Would you do anything? Would you give everything? I don’t know that a child knows that kind of selfless love. A mother, yes. A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. She will do it without thinking. But I don’t think the child knows how to do that, not instinctively. It’s something the child has to learn.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Anika’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Anika’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Anika hasn't connected with their friends on Goodreads, yet.
Polls voted on by Anika
Lists liked by Anika
