Beneath the Lion's Gaze Quotes

“When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“We must not be anything other than what we are.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“Those who are dead aren’t worth dying for.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“Hope can never come from doing nothing.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“All was normal, Hailu knew without looking, he could understand the body's silent language without the help of machinery. Years of practice had taught him how to decipher what most patients couldn't articulate. These days were teaching him more: that the frailty of our bodies stems from the heart and travels to the brain. That what the body feels and thinks determines the way it stumbles and falls.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“Tizita,” a melancholy tune of memory and home.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“Who’s left to rule if everyone’s in jail.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze

“Hailu had the appearance of a man dragging death with him through life.”
― Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion's Gaze