20 quotes found
“Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.”
“Let them say whatever gives them comfort.”
“When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.”
“Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.”
“A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
“We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.”
“In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.”
“on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.”
“I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.”
“There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.”
“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, an...”
“On the girls brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I a...”
“I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a sc...”
“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. ”
“For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an illness you can cure yourself of by standing up and letting the big red cinema seat fold itself up be...”
“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stor...”
“...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...”
“Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That...”
“How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?”
“On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ...”
