Ghost Season Quotes

“He was not giving himself up. He was opening himself to more. He was a Nilot, and a Catholic. Now also a Muslim. There was room in him for many things. For everything. He was flooded by a sense of his own largeness, his own possibility.”
― Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season

“she knew that she wasn’t just any girl with a pretty face. Something had always separated her from others like her. Some yearning that extended beyond the limits of her own place. She got it from her grandmother. She liked to laugh. She liked to dance. She liked being happy, and she felt that it was her right, when she knew that it wasn’t a woman’s right to seek such things.”
― Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season

“From her grandmother Layla learned two lessons. First: men were weak, much weaker than women. Second: because they were weak, they were her enemies.”
― Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season

“Southern rebels on one side. Northern regime on the other. A war that had been ongoing in one form or another since independence in 1956. The South wanted development, education, healthcare, equal representation in government. The North wanted to keep them poor, illiterate, while digging up the oil. Saraaya was in the middle of the country, right in the middle of the oil fields. A mixed population: Southern Nilotes and Northern nomads, who spent half the year grazing their cattle here. Whoever controlled Saraaya controlled the oil. Right now it was the government.”
― Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season

“Sometimes, she scolded herself, you just have to enjoy the moment. Forget the camera.”
― Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season

“He’d given up on wealth, on success, and was disillusioned enough to understand that not everything was within his grasp. That life treated you differently based on where you were born and who you were born to, and there was nothing you could do about it.”
― Fatin Abbas, Ghost Season