Cannibals Quote by Rawi Hage

Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He…

— Rawi Hage

In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one…

— Rawi Hage

“Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?”

— Rawi Hage

“Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.”

— Rawi Hage

“We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.”

— Rawi Hage

“God created each one of us with a light inside. I’ve had sex with all kinds of people; every single person has a kind…

— Rawi Hage

“So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.”

— Rawi Hage

“Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don’t look attentively, if you don’t go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering…

— Rawi Hage

“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids…

— Rawi Hage

“The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless…

— Rawi Hage

“What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.”

— Rawi Hage

“Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator.”

— Rawi Hage