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1. "The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives." ~ Alexandra Fuller
2. "She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night." ~ Alexandra Fuller
3. "...."The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody has fathomed the depths of...and paths threaeded with flowers planted by the mind."Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnes" ~ Alexandra Fuller
4. "Well-bred' ensured buckled noses, high-arched feet, a predisposition to madness, and ... an innate belief in our own unquestioning superiority." ~ Alexandra Fuller
5. "Toasted tobacco, no additives,' I said. 'Yum. Tastes like childhood." ~ Alexandra Fuller
6. "This is the Tree of Forgetfulness. All the headmen here plant one of these trees in the village. They say ancestors stay inside it. If there is some sickness or if you are troubled by spirits, then you sit under the Tree of Forgetfulness and your ancestors will assist you with whatever is wrong'." ~ Alexandra Fuller
7. "It should not be possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible. The shock is too much, the contrast too raw. We should sail or swim or walk from Africa, letting bits of her drop out of us, and gradually, in this way, assimilate the excesses and liberties of the States in tiny, incremental sips.... p 72" ~ Alexandra Fuller
8. "Cowboy up, cupcake." ~ Alexandra Fuller
9. "How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to." ~ Alexandra Fuller
10. "Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace." ~ Alexandra Fuller
11. "The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care." ~ Alexandra Fuller
12. "Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both. When I picked up the skulls to add to my growing collection of what Vanessa called "Bobo's smelly pile," the hooked horns fell away from each other and the story of the impalas' death struggle was undone." ~ Alexandra Fuller
13. "This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get on with it." ~ Alexandra Fuller
14. "It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless." ~ Alexandra Fuller
15. "But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow." ~ Alexandra Fuller
16. "You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving." ~ Alexandra Fuller

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