"The land itself, of course, was careless of……" — Alexandra Fuller
"The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care."
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22 Quotes by Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller has 22 quotes on this site.
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This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice…
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It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins -…
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You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and…
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But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown…
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FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in…
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Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had…
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I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
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I listen mostly to classical music.
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I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
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In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
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In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until…
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I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book,…
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