I can't say why some memories float and other sink..

Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from wh….

No use crying over spilled milk..

A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that e….

It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house..

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us..

When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the oth….

When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation a….

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust..

Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker t….

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can..

I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets..

I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What….

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation..

What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life..

Passion - eventually it cools..

We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound..

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison..