I used to think that was my magic—having the power to see things others couldn’t—things they didn’t even want to admit to themselves. But all you have to do is open your eyes. My eyes are wide open.
“Now the verandah was so silent I could hear the sound of the raindrops sliding off the leaves.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Foolish old earth, returning and repeating itself, over and over. Never misses a show. How can you bear it, you ancient tart, giving the identical performance again and again, evenings and matinées, while the theatre crumbles around you, the lines in the script unchanging, to say nothing of the make-up, the costumes, the extravagant gestures … Tomorrow and tomorrow and the day after that …”
― The Promise
― The Promise
“The premier achievement of human history, they said, the triumph of memory over the obliterating forces of destruction and erasure.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Oh, i can deal with the tragedy, it's the farce I can't handle.”
― The Promise
― The Promise
“As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she’s not in the room any more, she’s inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.”
― The promise
― The promise
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