Maaza Mengiste Quotes

• We must not be anything other than what we are.

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  Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

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  Waiting, Mercy, Gods Will

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• The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

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  Love Is, Dies

  Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

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  War, Thinking, Government

  Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

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  Thinking, Land, Rich

  Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

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  Book, Reader

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