Top 37 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. As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
Craig Brown
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.
Laila Lalami
#7. There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.
Laila Lalami
#8. Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.
Laila Lalami
#9. A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
Mignon McLaughlin
#10. 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
#11. Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
David Lloyd-Jones
#12. 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
#13. Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.
Dennis Miller
#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
#17. Why me?"
"Because when you touched me, I had to have more.
Chanel Cleeton
#18. But life should not be traded for gold - a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.
Laila Lalami
#19. 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
#20. But what can I do? I can - she leapt into the abyss - join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.
Annie Barrows
#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. 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
#23. From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost.
Laila Lalami
#24. 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
#25. It's gotten to the point where I think my friends would rather hang out with their own kids than hang out with me. And I'm like, "Alright, but where's the loyalty, man. I've known you for twenty-five years. How long have you known your baby, like, a month?"
Arj Barker
#26. There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.
James Patterson
#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. To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.
Laila Lalami
#29. 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
#30. Being smart isn't good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don't know can most definitely hurt you.
Seanan McGuire
#31. Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.
Rita Zahara
#32. 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
#33. 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
#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. He, too, wanted to tell the story of our adventure in his own way. Praise
Laila Lalami
#36. No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.
Laila Lalami
#37. 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
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