Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun Quotes

“Now the books are arranged according to which characters I believe ought to be talking to each other. That’s”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“How often I have felt lonely even when with someone. Lonelier sometimes than when I’m on my own.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“It’s tough out here, and sometimes when I read about Africa, I don’t see America being any better. It’s really a crying shame.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“How could I explain that the way he craved my body made me angry?”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“I wonder if I should explain that it’s not that I don’t want to make love, only that after a long day of attending to others I’m craving space.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“Madness. Old age is a massacre. No place for sissies. No place for love songs. No place for dreaming. No place for dreaming erotic dreams”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“What is done is done and I’ll wait until I get home to see how bad things really are. Consider the birds in the sky, I remind myself. Consider the birds in the sky.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“I may be old, but farting and burping in public is not something I intend to succumb to. If I can help it.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“I dream of being held. Of being touched. Of being desired again. Of being recognized. Of not having to worry about what other people might one day think of this, might already be thinking.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“The architects must only have thought of women when they designed retirement homes, and assumed they liked to sit and stare solemnly at gardens all day.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“I keep remembering the man who repeatedly lifted an empty fork from his plate to his toothless mouth.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“Is every, every?’ ‘Everything’s fine,’ I say, sensing her struggle with the words.”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

“Det er derfor Heart of Darkness står ved siden af Le Regard du Roi, og Wide Sargasso Sea står lige ovenover Jane Eyre. De to sidstnævnte stod før i tiden ved siden af hinanden, men så besluttede jeg, at det var bedre at rette op på den gamle koloniale ubalance ved at give Rhys overtaget – altså den øverste hylde”
― Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun