Fever Quotes

“Long story short, I have always been fascinated by how we absolutely need to be in a relationship. I mean, it consumes us, that need, that terrible need to be loved, to be with someone.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever A Novel

“We remember the moments of fear, loss and humiliation most vividly.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever: Epic story of rebuilding civilization after a world-ruining virus

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain for ever a child. For what is the value of a human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Deon Meyer, Fever: Epic story of rebuilding civilization after a world-ruining virus

“We are starting a sanctuary, a community that will have justice, wisdom, moderation and courage…”
“It’s from Plato,” said Pa. “From The Republic.”
“I see,” said Hennie, in a tone that revealed he had no idea what Pa was talking about.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever A Novel

“Years later I realised he left sex out when he came to Maslow’s list of physiological needs. I don’t blame him.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever A Novel

“Einstein said, “I believe in Spinoza’s god, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a god who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever

“Want die wêreld en die lewe ís magies, Nero. Op ’n manier. Want ons kan planne maak soos ons wil, maar die heelal steur hom nie daaraan nie.”
― Deon Meyer, Koors

“Yeah, of course I hated too. Facebook most of all, if you have to know. Facebook. Hated it. For me that was the epitome of what was wrong with society. ’Cause why, you’ve got all these friends, but they’re not real friends, just people you can post photos for, of your breakfast and your lunch and your cute kitty. I ask you. Like they really cared. They only cared because they needed you as an audience. Facebook friends were an audience, that’s all. And it made me sick how they all needed an audience. Society got so impersonal, so don’t-care, till we had to validate ourselves on something like Facebook, to an audience of people who don’t give a flying . . . Let me just say, that’s sad. Tragic.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever: Epic story of rebuilding civilization after a world-ruining virus

“Who’s going to rob a black man on a bicycle?”
― Deon Meyer, Fever A Novel

“Hennie read the last lines of the pamphlet: “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“That’s Emma Lazarus,” said Pa.
“Is that her up there?” asked Hennie and pointed at Melinda Swanevelder in the Volvo.
Pa said no, Emma Lazarus was an American poet. She wrote the poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty. The woman in the cab is Melinda Swanevelder. We found her in Vanderkloof.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever A Novel

“But it felt as though someone were watching us.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever: Epic story of rebuilding civilization after a world-ruining virus

“Communism. Capitalism. Democracy. Imagined realities, because they only arose in people’s minds, they had no scientific basis.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever: Epic story of rebuilding civilization after a world-ruining virus