Lesley Lokko Quotes

#1. The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.

Lesley Lokko

#2. All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. Everybody has a goal

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Trixie seesawed between wishing everyone would leave her alone and wondering why everyone treated her like a leper.

Jodi Picoult

#5. She would love it. Just as he loved her. He paused for a second, his fingers touching the door handle. He was in love. The realisation came to him quite suddenly.

Lesley Lokko

#6. At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it."
"It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly

Alexandre Dumas

#7. When love comes, it comes indiscriminately.

Lesley Lokko

#8. Nobody told me love was warm. Such warmth - I seemed to remember it, it seemed like something forgotten by me since I was born. All the fires are here, and the warmth of my mother's bed long ago and the deep heat of the sun.

Lesley Lokko

#9. You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.

Lesley Lokko

#10. We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

Jack Irons

#11. He wasn't there to save her. She must know how to save herself.

Lesley Lokko

#12. I drive a taxi and a car and a truck and a T-55 tank and also a T-62 and armored cars and the motorcycles with and without sidecars.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#13. How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love.

Lesley Lokko

#14. It wasn't sealed - she opened the flap. Inside was a cheque for a thousand dollars. Made out to her. From Daniel. It was a colossal slap in the face.

Lesley Lokko

#15. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

#16. Seeds of doubt, once planted, will grow.

Lesley Lokko

#17. A line from Barthes she remembered: Every lover is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love?

Jeffrey Eugenides