"What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us."
— Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat)

"Cowboy up, cupcake."
— Alexandra Fuller (Cowboy: The Legend of Colton H. Bryant)

"How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to."
— Alexandra Fuller (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood)

"It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless."
— Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat)

"You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place."
— Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat)

"How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to."
— Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat)