Hisham Matar Quotes
- Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.
- I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
- Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.
- There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.
- When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire…
- Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a…
- Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have…