Nadifa Mohamed
Nadifa Mohamed is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on Granta magazine’s list “Best of Young British Novelists” (Nadifa Mohamed Quotes)
“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.”
Nadifa Mohamed
“I stood in bars, clothed but naked, looking from their eyes to my feet and back again. Still there was the longing to contend with: the heavy, bloody, chemical urge to consume another body and spit out its bones in a new child. How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could so easily destroy you?”
Nadifa Mohamed
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.”
Nadifa Mohamed
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed through her. She never picked the fruit that fell from them, believing it a kind of cannibalism, but out of those soft, unshaped figures had grown tall, strong, tough-barked trees that blossomed and called birds to their branches and clambered out over the orchard walls to the world beyond.”
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“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.”
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“The blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean – you are missed, her dreams seem to say.”
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“The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers.”
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“ Why do men speak so loudly? They shout rather than talk and laugh like the world needs to know they are laughing.”
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