Africa is no more corrupt than Europe; there are just fewer ways to hide it here.’

the time they were thirty,’ she said. ‘They were adults. I

Passion can be constructive but lust is always destructive.’

We have no idea as we live our lives, that tomorrow will be different.’

eating the distance.

‘I’ve thought myself out of relationships. I’m not unhappy about it.’ ‘But you’re not happy either.’ ‘I’m neutral, and in a neutral place I am less likely to do damage.’

Life without ideas is just a ceaseless lurch from event to event, stimulus to stimulus.

Politics was responsible for the wounds her hands prowled and sutured as much as any gun.

She might be very young, or her own age.