Not every man who bears the mark of the castaway is a castaway by heart.
Quotes from Foe — J. M. Coetzee
born 1940 South Africa
32 quotes
We can bring [the island] to life only by setting it within a larger story.
Foe (1986)
I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story.
Foe (1986)
Nothing I have forgotten is worth the remembering.
Foe (1986)
The less they seem to me like fields waiting to be planted, the more like tombs.
Foe (1986)
A being without substance, a ghost beside the true body of Cruso.
Foe (1986)
This is the place where bodies are their own signs.
Foe (1986)
To live in silence is to live like the whales.
Foe (1986)
Cannibals are no less dull than Englishmen.
Foe (1986)
I ask you to remember, not every man who bears the mark of a castaway is a castaway at heart
Foe (1986)
I would rather be the author of my story than have lies told about me.
Foe (1986)
In a sea of fallen leaves we sit, she and I, two substantial beings.
Foe (1986)
But those whom we have abused we customarily grow to hate.
Foe (1986)
Crushed under his soles whole clusters of the thorns that had pierced my skin.
Foe (1986)
The stranger (who was of course the Cruso I told you of).
Foe (1986)
Day by day the wind picks at the roof and the weeds creep across the terraces.
Foe (1986)
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Return to me the substance I have lost, Mr. Foe. That is my entreaty.
Foe (1986)
It was I who shared Cruso's bed and closed Cruso's eyes.
Foe (1986)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. M. Coetzee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.