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Quotes from The Map of Love — Ahdaf Soueif

born 1950 Egypt

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“If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?”

The Map of Love (1999)

We always know how the story ends. What we don't know is what happens along the way.

The Map of Love (1999)

“Sometimes I think, because we use the same words, we assume we mean the same thing”

The Map of Love (1999)

“So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?”

The Map of Love (1999)

There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a man who stands lost in admiration at the gun that is raised to shoot him.

The Map of Love (1999)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ahdaf Soueif (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.