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Quotes from Eyes of the Slain Woman — Benjamin Kwakye

born 1967 Ghana

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Time will never come when the word [Last Next] would be yelled out announcing his own arrived death.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

And never in Solo’s life did he want to heal anyone as strongly as he wanted to heal the man lying in front of him.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

How could he save the life of a man who’d murdered his in laws and then attempted to murder him?

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

Manslaughter rather than murder, jail sentence rather than death.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

Catharsis, sating of the primordial love for bloodletting.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

But neither sages nor pastors offered satisfying counsel.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

Solo stands on trial for the murder of his wife.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

Life was more fully present there and perhaps, on account of that, death would retreat.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

In the beginning her eyes were eyes and she could see clearly. And then they turned into two massive loaves of bread upon which many gathered to feast – a kind of grand banquet in which she only participated as an observer.

Eyes of the Slain Woman (2011)

Attribution

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