Swahili for the Broken-Hearted Quotes

“I told him he wasn’t my friend. Before he could protest I said that real friends don’t wake up other friends in the middle of the night for money for drugs. (Even as I said it I thought of at least half a dozen occasions when that has happened to me, but that wasn’t the point.)”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“She said I could come back to her room if I liked. ‘I’ll check if you’ve got testicular cancer,’ she said without a trace of humour.

It kind of killed the mood.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“There was a time not so long ago when you couldn’t get into Malawi unless you could slide a Coke bottle between your leg and your jeans. You had to stick the bottle in at the waistband and under the watchful gaze of the Malawi police, move it between the denim and your pelvis and down your inside leg until it popped out through the leghole near your foot. The government claimed that it was to protect the country from the moral decline caused by tight jeans.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“Now, call me shallow, but if I walk into a pub and there are girls dancing on the bar, I tend to stick around.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“I’ve long held that you can judge a country’s economic plight by the number of goats it has. The more goats there are, the more desperate the situation in that particular village, town, or country.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“It was the first rough travelling I’d done on my African adventure and it felt good. South Africa had been too easy. I simply turned up at a minivan station and there was a death trrap waiting for me. Now I was on a painfully slow truck that shuddered and groaned in a manner that suggested it wasn’t long for this world.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“Lesotho is known as ‘The Kingdom Without Fences,’ but perhaps a more accurate description would be ‘The Kingdom Where Cattle are Allowed to Wander Freely into the Path of Oncoming Vehicles.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted

“If I didn’t act quickly I’d be forced to face the consequences of what had happened every day of the week. I decided to do what any maladjusted commitmentphobe would do. I decided to run away to africa.”
― Peter Moore, Swahili for the Broken-Hearted