People Like Them Quotes

“And since sharing misfortune often brings people together, the simple fact of you having confided in each other created an instant bond”
― Samira Sedira, People Like Them

“The impressive size of the library intimidated you, you'd never been a big reader-and when one day you finally dared to ask Bakary if he'd read all of the books, he burst out laughing responding that he didn't see any point in having them in one's house just to watch them collect dust.”
― Samira Sedira, People Like Them

“I don't know if we're all capable of killing with as much as savagery as you had. I still don't understand where it could have come from. That mystery will probably haunt me until the end. What I do know, however is that no one around you was innocent. We stood back and let it happen. Like a chain reaction, each of us contributed to an outcome. A horrific act. A tragedy. Our tragedy. I also tell myself that maybe there were words that would have been kept you from sinking, except we didn't even know that We were losing you; we hadn't understood that yet.”
― Samira Sedira, People Like Them

“A murderer's wife is reproached for everything: her composure when she should show more compassion; her hysteria when she should demonstrate restraint; her presence when she should disappear, her absence when she should have the decency to be there; and so on. The woman who one day becomes the murderer's wife shoulders a responsibility almost more damning than that of the murderer himself, because she wasn't able to detect in time the vile beast slumbering inside her spouse. She lacked perceptiveness. And that's what will bring about her fall from grace--her despicable lack of perceptiveness.”
― Samira Sedira, People Like Them