The Witch Doctor’s Daughter Quotes

“...a man can believe in something and still not behave according to those beliefs... That you are looking for consistency, but the human heart has never been consistent. We can love something even when it is bad for us, terrible for us, kills us, harms us. We can believe and not believe. We can hold the truth in our hands and still yearn for falsehood.”
― Kathrina Mohd Daud, The Witch Doctor’s Daughter

“There is something seductive and drugging about living in the jungle, but it is also dark and overwhelming. It takes your energy and strength for itself, and the only way to get it back is by taking it from the earth, the air, the roots and flowers. A cycle, nothing rinsed clean, everything relentlessly worried down to the essence, endlessly transformed, endlessly changed, but into what it always was. Purified down beyond marrow, into cell into atom.
It is different out here. The wind shifts, and a sailor a thousand kilometres away changes his mind. The smell of that change, the shadow of it, drifts to where I stand, is buffeted and flavoured by waves and tides and time. The river is a mirror and a road, not a crucible. Things are less concentrated here, more diffused. Gentler and harsher all at once. The river shows the inevitability of change. Whether you are ready or not, it comes. Those who live here are those who have made their peace with the sweeping away of what was and is.”
― Kathrina Mohd Daud, The Witch Doctor’s Daughter

“Amin is earth, and Jonah is -- more than anyone else I know, except for maybe my mother -- Jonah is air. Welcome everywhere, not quite of anywhere.”
― Kathrina Mohd Daud, The Witch Doctor’s Daughter

“Everything dies," Jonah agrees. "But not everything that dies is lost.”
― Kathrina Mohd Daud, The Witch Doctor’s Daughter