Top 36 Laila Lalami Quotes
#1. Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.
Salman Rushdie
#2. There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.
Laila Lalami
#3. No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.
Laila Lalami
#4. The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
Laila Lalami
#5. Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I know know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.
Laila Lalami
#6. A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.
Laila Lalami
#7. If Attolia could look like a queen, Eugenides was like a god revealed, transformed into something wholly unfamiliar, surrounded by the cloth-of-gold bedcover like a deity on an altar, passionless and calculating.
Megan Whalen Turner
#8. Nothing new has ever happened to aq son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories.
Laila Lalami
#9. You miss Azemmur, she said.
Yes, I said. And I have grown so used to the pain of missing it that sometimes I feel as though I have learnt to walk after an imputation. But now, Oyomasot, it is as if I can sense that severed limb again.
Laila Lalami
#10. In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.
Laila Lalami
#11. Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."
Trevor Noah
#12. Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.
Laila Lalami
#13. Telling a story is like sowing a seed - you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.
Laila Lalami
#14. Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
Laila Lalami
#15. He warned me that trade would open the door to greed and greed was an inconsiderate guest; it would bring its evil relations with it.
Laila Lalami
#16. A seeker is an 'ultra-stable' person with a 'quasi-stable mind'..
Quasi, as for his salvation, he has to dive right into the unstable..
That needs 'excessive stability' flexible enough to experience instability'..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#17. But life should not be traded for gold - a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.
Laila Lalami
#18. But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him.
Laila Lalami
#19. Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#20. To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.
Laila Lalami
#21. so this desertion was nothing more than the last rebellion of the doomed, like the lambs that stagger back on their feet after their throats have been cut. In
Laila Lalami
#22. I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!
Lauren London
#23. Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.
Laila Lalami
#24. From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost.
Laila Lalami
#25. In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths.
Matt Haig
#26. Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
Laila Lalami
#27. I was a thirty-eight-year-old man, so I had plenty of time to consider the world through the eyes of someone else: yet that someone had rarely been a woman.
Laila Lalami
#28. Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
Pico Iyer
#29. He, too, wanted to tell the story of our adventure in his own way. Praise
Laila Lalami
#30. Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
Toni Morrison
#31. He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.
Laila Lalami
#32. I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions.
Laila Lalami
#33. The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
Mary Doria Russell
#34. Name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.
Laila Lalami
#35. The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Thomas Paine
#36. I wanted to pretend for just a little longer that I was whole again. Happy. Then I'd figure out how to pick up the pieces and move on.
L.A. Fiore
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