"While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling."

-- Meg Wolitzer

#War Quotes #Track Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.”
“There's a black rose growing in your garden.”
“Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.”
“At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.”
“Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.”

Source : "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
“Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances”
“You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.”

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