BAM

“This was not true, but the lie seemed to happen ahead of me, without my full consent. This too was to become a habit. It is far too tempting, when you are away from home, to make stuff up.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends

“Doesn’t it make you shudder to think that the heart of the universe is so cold?”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends

“God veil our faults," as the old folks say. A simple, much overused prayer. But what little wisdom it contains. A philosophy of sorts. I love how modest it is. I mean, they could have said, "God erase our faults," Now that would've been ambitious. But "veil" is better. It presupposes that to live a life is to have faults, that no one is perfect and certainly no one is innocent. Not even you and I.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends

“Perhaps it was a weakness,” I said, “or, as Leo Tolstoy says somewhere, the lack of a necessary weakness.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends