Arianna Dagnino > Arianna's Quotes

“Muscles relax, the mind expands. The vastness enters into the skin like a shot. ‘Our’ time dissolves.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“While the smoke of the dagga slowly rises into the night, the rhythm of the women’s clapping begins to accelerate. Zoe sees the two men listening intently to that far-away call. Tongues of fire light up their rapt faces, throwing hallucinatory shadows against the bush curtain.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“Prison taught me a lot, including things I wouldn’t want to learn. Helplessly witnessing torture, death, the loss of human dignity, the abyss of bestiality our fellow humans can fall into. All this destroys something inside you – something that shouldn’t even be touched.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“Your fortress becomes a prison once you have swarms of desperate people pressing at the gate”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“Unsure about its place and identity, a whole nation was made to believe that ethnic pride and culture could only descend from race.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“The ‘Buffaloes’ were becoming a legend. The Colonel had forged them into a superb fighting machine […] Enough for a young hothead like me to want to be one of them [...]
Sam pauses and looks for a moment into the sparkling fire. The scar on his jaw glistens against the dark skin like broken glass [...]
You slowly fall prey to a sick frenzy. You develop a lust for blood. You even begin to enjoy killing.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“We can accept each other and be together without giving up our differences. It’s useless – even foolish – to reduce us to a common denominator.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“At times, we need to be like the weed, which bends in the wind,' the old shaman eventually says.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner