Petit pays
Gaël Faye
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Of course a book can change you. It can even change your life. It's like falling in love. And you never know when such an encounter might happen. You should beware of books, they're sleeping genies.”
“Genocide is an oil slick: those who don’t drown in it are polluted for life.”
“My life is one long meandering. Everything interests me. Nothing ignites my passion. There’s no fire in my belly. I belong to the race of slouchers, of averagely inert citizens.”
“We were full of dreams and it was with impatient hearts that we imagined the joys and adventures life held in store for us.”
“We felt deprived of all the things we'd done without up until then.”
“War always takes it upon itself, unsolicited, to find us an enemy. I wanted to remain neutral, but I couldn't. I was born with this story. It ran in my blood. I belonged to it.”
“My life is one long meandering. Everything interests me. Nothing ignites my passion. There's no fire in my belly. I belong to the race of slouchers, of averagely inert citizens. -Gaby, Small Country”
“The bougainvillea bushes surrounding the school had been replaced with a high brick wall to keep out the stray bullets, which sometimes lodged themselves in the classrooms.”
“I had no explanation for the deaths of some and the hatred of others. Perhaps this was what war meant: understanding nothing.”
“For the most part, Mamie’s neighbours were Rwandans who had left their country to escape carnage, massacres, wars, pogroms, purges, destruction, fires, tsetse flies, pillaging, apartheid, rapes, murders, settling of scores and I don’t know what else.”
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