This Is the Night They Come for You Quotes

“Algeria is a quicksand. If you are fortunate enough to escape its sucking grip, as you and I have been, you should never set foot there again. I never will.”
― Robert Goddard, This Is the Night They Come for You

“Whatever you decide to do, don't go back to Algeria. It consumes its sons and daughters. It shows them no mercy.”
― Robert Goddard, This Is the Night They Come for You

“The difference between convicted criminals and unconvicted ones is that the unconvicted ones run the country”
― Robert Goddard, This Is the Night They Come for You

“I sell them our tahini paste, our preserved lemons and our passion fruit jam, and they go away happy and Emine balances our books and I am happy too. There is nothing more to ask from life than this. All the rest - justice, retribution, the satisfaction of righting wrongs and correcting untruths - is a mirage. And if you chase a mirage where will you find yourself but the desert, with your feet sinking slowly in the sand ?”
― Robert Goddard, This Is the Night They Come for You