Alexandra Fuller Quotes

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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 we make to get on…
• It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and…
• You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only…
• 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…
• But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of…
• FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white…
• Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched…
• I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
• I listen mostly to classical music.
• I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
• In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
• In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
• I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never…
• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made…
• There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in…
• Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read…
• What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our…
• How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether…
• I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we…
• You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

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