Maaza Mengiste quotes
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“When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?”
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“We must not be anything other than what we are.”
-- Maaza MengisteSource : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company
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“A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.”
-- Maaza MengisteSource : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company
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“The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.”
-- Maaza MengisteSource : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company
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“The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.”
-- Maaza MengisteSource : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.”
-- Maaza Mengiste
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
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“I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.”
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“God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.”
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