The Last Brother Quotes

“You say you are an orpahn, or a widow or a widower, but when you have lost two sons on the same day, two brothers on the same day, what are you? What word is there to say what you have become?”
― Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother

“Knowing that regrets serve no purpose, that you need a lot of luck to fulfill your dreams, that the best way to live is to do your utmost at every moment and that so many things will happen without us, even though we spend all out time scurrying like madmen , in the belief that we can make some difference”
― Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother

“The French words we used were foreign to both of us, from now on it was a language we had to bend to what was in our own minds, to what we wanted to say, no longer, as it was at school, simply decoding and repeating.”
― Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother

“They used to say I was very sick and that playing might kill me. In truth, they were not wrong. I was very sick for my brothers and I felt sure that if I played with others, laughed, joined in their games, I would be betraying them, alienating myself from them forever”
― Nathacha Appanah, The Last Brother