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“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”

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“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward when nothing else will – but more often than not I am face-to-face with a stranger, a companion to something I recognise as myself, sure enough, but one who knows more than I do, thinks less of danger and propriety than I ever have or will, feels a cool and amused contempt for the rules and rituals by which I live, the duties I too readily accept, the compromises I too willingly allow (p. 262)”

Self Identity Rebellion

Book:A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

Source: A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

“Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.”

Self Colonialism Other Post Colonialism

Book:Season of Migration to the North

Source: Season of Migration to the North

“Our habits and our fears make our choices. We are an algorithm of ourselves--if you liked that you may also like this.”

Self Choices Likes Habits Fears Algorithms

Book:The Gap of Time

Source: The Gap of Time

“I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of their murkiness.”

Self

Book:Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Source: Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

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