“Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.” — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I… — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.” — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and… — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“And I will close my eyes and prepare myself so that they can unscrew my head and allow the map to slip into my… — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given… — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel. — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
“..did i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain or a… — Marlene Van Niekerk Copy Share Image
