Abyssinian Chronicles Quotes

“The skyline, gawking with architectural indigence, towered over the bowl like a row of stained, gap-toothed jawbones.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles: A Novel

“Each jubilating hand hand the potential to vivisect, each hailing mouth had the power to condemn someone to death.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles

“To me, life was lived day by day, and the actions of yesterday might have nothing to do with what happened the following day. Life was a journey of discovery, and character was a variable that kept veering left and right in search of the perfect way for a particular day.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles

“words were beaten into weapons,”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles

“We all walked around with skeletons rattling in our cupboard-like souls, editing carefully what we revealed, depending on whom we were talking to. We always second-guessed our audience and told them what they wanted to hear, or what would cause the least damage or best enhance our image.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles

“The lukewarm fingers of nostalgia stroked the hearts of the old, garnishing the smells and the sounds and the fires with old truths turned to dull uncertainties in today’s environment.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles

“Life was a journey of discovery, and character was a variable that kept veering left and right in search of the perfect way for a particular day.”
― Moses Isegawa, Abyssinian Chronicles