Tender Quotes

“There is enough cruelty in the world," she told me softly, "to justify all the music ever made.”
― Sofia Samatar, Tender

“Roads, roads!” she wrote in her little apartment, which was sinking deeper into the sand each year. “The more there are, the more beautifully kept they are, the harder it is to go anywhere.”
― Sofia Samatar, Tender

“People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people.”
― Sofia Samatar, Tender

“Perhaps that sounds romantic, but I believe things have true names. I believe everything has a name that I don’t know.”
― Sofia Samatar, Tender

“Egypt conquered Kush, you see, and the artists of Kush adopted Egypt’s painting style. And generations later, these Kushite artists used these images, images of their own people, to depict their enemies! Isn’t that odd? As if the images have no character at all. As if they are vessels that can be filled again and again. Simply the enemy. And what is required of the enemy’s image? Only that the figures are identical, and that they are many.”
― Sofia Samatar, Tender