The Orchard of Lost Souls Quotes

“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“... the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed through her. She never picked the fruit that fell from them, believing it a kind of cannibalism, but out of those soft, unshaped figures had grown tall, strong, tough-barked trees that blossomed and called birds to their branches and clambered out over the orchard walls to the world beyond.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls

“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls