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41 " You have to talk about the things that cause you pain. "
― Abdulrazak Gurnah , Gravel Heart
42 " I knew then (not that I didn’t really know before, but some lessons have to be learned and relearned, and even then we forget them so easily and talk ourselves into something ameliorating and hopeful) that the food-stores were going to remain empty, and that schools would be without books, and the air would be filled with cruel, duplicitous promises, that justice would be just another word brayed from the mouths of the donkeys who rule us, and of course the toilets were going to remain blocked for a long time. "
― Abdulrazak Gurnah , Admiring Silence
43 " I don’t think I ever got over those early days, though. Even after all these years I can’t get over the feeling of being alien in England, of being a foreigner. Sometimes I think that what I feel for England is disappointed love. "
44 " Y sólo entonces supe que mi vida había sido un desierto hasta ese instante, y conocí la dulzura del silencio entre compañeros. "
― Abdulrazak Gurnah , By the Sea
45 " The Germans were afraid of nothing. "
― Abdulrazak Gurnah , Paradise
46 " As if they were anything more than debilitating stories that turned everything into moments of reprise that disabled and disarmed. "
47 " So I smiled and began to talk in what I hoped was a genial and friendly voice, but as soon as I started I could hear resonances of my teacher tones: informative, seeking to persuade, holding things back. I pressed on. I was a teacher, that was what I was. I was unfulfilled. "
48 " They offered me freedom as a gift. She did. Who told her she had it to offer? I know the freedom you are talking about. I had that freedom the moment I was born. When these people say you belong to me, I own you, it is like the passing of the rain, or the setting of the sun at the end of the day. "