Afterlives Quotes

“... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“But listen to what I am saying: good fortune is never permanent. You cannot always be sure how long the good moments will last or when they will come again. Life is full of regrets, and you have to recognize the good moments and be thankful for them and act with conviction. Take your chances.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“The askari left the land devastated, its people starving and dying in the hundreds of thousands, while they struggled on in their blind and murderous embrace of a cause whose origins they did not know and whose ambitions were vain and ultimately intended for their domination.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“So what we can know for sure, Ilyas told his parents, is that someone loved Uncle Ilyas as enough to follow him to certain death in a concentration camp in order to keep him company.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

“Abdulrazak Gurnah”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives