11 quotes
They have created a man – no, a Frankenstein’s monster – and branded it with his name before setting it loose.
The Fortune Men (2021)
It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.
The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013)
You are a perpetual motion machine.
The Fortune Men (2021)
Standing there, shoulders sagging, in the Law Courts, in Cardiff, in Bilad al-Welsh, he feels the blows of their lies like a man shot with arrows.
The Fortune Men (2021)
...look around you, this is the jungle, you got bushes and trees everywhere, in my country nothing grows.
The Fortune Men (2021)
This shop is my life, and if I had just sold it in '48 what good would that have done? A widow, a spinster, and a little girl, jumping from home to home and job to job.
The Fortune Men (2021)
The place has enchantment, mystery, it moves backward and forward in time with every turn of the feet; it is fitting that it lies beside an ocean over which its soul can breathe, rather than being hemmed in by mountains like a jinn in a bottle.
The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013)
They're doing this because they haven't broken me. If I had lost my mind and sat weeping in my own shit, maybe then they'd be happy to send me to a madhouse like they did with Khaireh.
The Fortune Men (2021)
In the centre of the city where the alleys narrow at points to the width of a man’s shoulder blades, you can walk as if in a dream, never certain of what might appear after the next bend:...
The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013)
Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.
The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013)
....the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers.
The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013)