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Quotes from River Spirit — Leila Aboulela

born 1964 Sudan

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4 quotes

Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise.

River Spirit (2023)

When it’s fair trade, it’s blessed, and when it’s unfair it’s an injustice. That is the way of the world. Everyone wants something and they barter to get it.

River Spirit (2023)

Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else

River Spirit (2023)

I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty.

River Spirit (2023)

Attribution

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