“I had never been so close to death before. For a long time, as I lay there trying to clear my mind, I couldn't think coherently at all, conscious only of a terrible, blind bitterness. Why had they singled me out? Didn't they understand? Had everything I'd gone through on their behalf been utterly in vain? Did it really count… — Andre Brink Copy Share
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because… — André Brink Copy Share Image
“I was born on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, in the early spring of 1960.” — André Brink Copy Share Image
I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I… — André Brink Copy Share Image
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where… — André Brink Copy Share Image
“But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.” — Andre Brink Copy Share Image
Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what… — André Brink Copy Share Image
“Ouma Nella’s quotes p 144 -146 “Man, if you don’t know where you going, any road will bring you there.” “It don’t matter how… — andre brink Copy Share Image
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have… — André Brink Copy Share Image
