"You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters.……" — Dinaw Mengestu
"You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point."
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Dinaw Mengestu
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23 Quotes by Dinaw Mengestu
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There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who…
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It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose,…
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not…
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The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any…
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they…
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At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came…
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away,…
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I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where…
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Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the…
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was…
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