Top 6 Nadifa Mohamed Quotes
#1. As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight.
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#2. 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.
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#3. In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her.
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#4. It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.
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#5. But it is their voices that really bother her: why do men speak so loudly? They shout rather than talk and laugh like the world needs to know they are laughing.
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#6. The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers
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