“I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser. Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“God created each one of us with a light inside. I’ve had sex with all kinds of people; every single person has a kind… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don’t look attentively, if you don’t go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking. — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
