Anne Chappel > Anne's Quotes

“If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”
― Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

“In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”
― Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

“The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, The Cobra's Heart

“Her task seemed ridiculous, the result of a momentary weakness, of believing in the impossible, that stories have a trajectory where we find things out, resolve things to our satisfaction and come out the other side, wiser and happier”
― Anne M Chappel, Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival

“We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.”
― Anne M Chappel, Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival

“There are many ways to die in Africa's Great Rift Valley. The vulture observed them all. The manner of life's ending did not concern her, or whether the dying creature was animals or human, black or white. Immaterial. Death comes. The vulture comes.”
― Anne M Chappel