Eight Months on Ghazzah Street Quotes

“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the West,” Samira said. “There would be harassment. People would be all the time having love affair.”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“They always say, we’ll just do another year. It’s called the golden handcuffs.”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“Travel ends and routine begins and old habits which you thought you had left behind in one country catch up with you in the next, and old problems resurface, but if you are lucky you carry as part of your baggage the means of solving those problems and accommodating those habits, and you take with you an open mind and discretion, and common sense; if you have those with you, you can manage anywhere.”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“Life is not like detective stories. There is a wider scope for interpretation. The answers to all the questions that beset you are not in facts, which are the greatest illusion of all, but in your own heart, in your own habits, in your limitations, in your fear.”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“think”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“all colors of people mingle in the souks and squares. But they do not merge.”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“Because Islam doesn’t,” he said, his voice toneless,”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“why doesn’t Yasmin distinguish … between private morality and public order?”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

“People confuse early rising with moral worth;”
― Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street