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1. "I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
2. "You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!" ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
3. "Good, good, now say cheese, say cheese, cheese, cheeeeeeese - the woman enthuses, and everyone says cheese. Myself, I don't really say, because I am busy trying to remember what cheese means exactly, and I cannot remember. Yesterday Mother of Bones told us the story of Dudu the bird who learned and sand a new song whose words she did not really know the meaning of and who was then caught, killed, and cooked for dinner because in the song she was actually begging people to kill and cook her." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
4. "We are on our way to Budapest: Bastard and Chipo and Godknows and Sbho and Stina and me. We are going even though we are not allowed to cross Mzilikazi Road, even though Bastard is supposed to be watching his little sister Fraction, even though Mother would kill me dead if she found out; we are just going. There are guavas to steal in Budapest, and right now I'd rather die for guavas." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
5. "If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
6. "When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
7. "Look at them leaving in droves despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong, knowing they will have to sit on one buttock because they must not sit comfortable lest they be asked to rise and leave, knowing they will speak in dampened whispers because they must not let their voices drown those of the owners of the land, knowing they will have to walk on their toes because they must not leave footprints on the new earth lest they be mistaken for those who want to claim the land as theirs. Look at them leaving in droves, arm in arm with loss and lost, look at them leaving in droves." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
8. "It's not the lying itself that makes me feel bad but the fact that I'm here lying to my friends." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
9. "...and then we are rushing, then we are running and then we are running and laughing and laughing and laughing." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
10. "[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
11. "Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane, Kimatsu. When it was hard to say the many strange names, we called them by their countries. So how on earth do you do this, Sri Lanka?Mexico, are you coming or what?Is it really true you sold a kidney to come to America, India?Guys, just give Tshaka Zulu a break, the guy is old, I'm just saying.We know you despise this job, Sudan, but deal with it, man.Come, Ethiopia, move, move, move; Israel, Kazakhstn, Niger, brothers, let's go!" ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
12. "Aunt Fostalina says when she first came to America she went to school during the day and worked nights at Eliot's hotels, cleaning hotel rooms together with people from countries like Senegal, Cameroon, Tibet, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and so on. It was like the damn United Nations there, she likes to say." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
13. "Leaving your country is like dying, and when you come back you are like a ghost returning to earth, roaming around with missing gaze in your eyes" ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
14. "And when they asked us where we were from, we exchanged glances and smiled with the shyness of child brides. They said, Africa? We nodded yes. What part of Africa? We smiled. Is it that part where vultures wait for famished children to die? We smiled. Where the life expectancy is thirty-five years? We smiled? Is is there where dissidents shove AK-47s between women's legs? We smiled. Where people run about naked? We smiled. That part where they massacred each other? We smiled. Is it where the old president rigged the election and people were tortured and killed and a whole bunch of them put in prison and all, there where they are dying of cholera - oh my God, yes, we've seen your country; it's been on the news." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
15. "...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
16. "Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
17. "That crown on her head is very heavy, that's why she is smiling like that, smiling like she just ate a whole bunch of unripe guavas. It's heavy because it's made of gold, Godknows says. I thought crowns were made of thorns. I saw a picture of it in the Bible, when they were killing Jesus, Sbho says." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
18. "He speaks with this tone like he owns things, but we know that even the baton stick in his hands is not his, that if he weren't on this street he'd be nothing." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
19. "Heaven is boring. Didn't you see, in that picture book back when we used to go to school? It's just plain and white and there is not even any color and it's too orderly. Like there will be crazy prefects telling you all the time: Do thus, don't do that, where are your shoes, tuck in your shirt, shhh, God doesn't like it and will punish you, keep your voice low you'll wake the angels, go and wash, you are dirty, Bastard says. Me, when I die I want to go where there's lots of food and music and a party that never ends and we're singing that Jobho song, Godknows says." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
20. "You pray and pray and pray and nothing changes, like for example I prayed for a real house and good clothes and a bicycle and things for a long, long, time, and none of it happened, not even one little thing, which is how I know that all this praying for Father is just people playing." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
21. "Father comes home after many years of forgetting us, of not sending us money, of not loving us, not visiting us, not anything us, and parks in the shack, unable to move, unable to talk properly. unable to anything, vomiting and vomiting, Jesus, just vomiting and defecating on himself, and it smelling like something dead in there, dead and rotting, his body a black, terrible stick; I come in from playing Find bin Laden and he is there." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
22. "In order to do this right, we need new names. I am Dr. Bullet, she is beautiful, and you are, Dr. Roz, he is tall, Sbho says, nodding at me. You said he, I don't want to be a man, I say. Well, that's who I remember, either you are that or you are nothing, Sbho says, making a cutting motion across Chipo's stomach.And you, you are Dr. Cutter, Sbho says to Forgiveness, and Forgiveness spits and ignores Sbho.Who am I? Chipo says. You, you are a patient. Patients are just called patients, Sbho says." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
23. "At first it comes in small drops; that's how pee does, if somebody is watching, then it just won't come. I get more tiny drops, like I'm squeezing a lemon, so I close my eyes tight and concentrate.Why are you taking so long? Forgiveness says, irritated-like, like she is somebody.Leave her alone, is she peeing with your thing? Sbho says. Then when I'm beginning to think the pee is really not coming, it comes, so I turn around and give Forgiveness a talking eye that says Say something, uh-uh, uh-uh." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
24. "Now there is a soft tap on the door. It's that man again. I don't know his name but I know it's him and nobody else because he always knocks five times, not four, not six, just five, and so softly too, like he fears he will make dents in the tin. Mother pulls the blankets over my head and then blows out the candle before opening the door. But what she doesn't know is that I am always awake most of the time this happens, because I am the hare." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
25. "Look at that drum of a stomach, it's like he has swallowed a country." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
26. "The devil is a woman in a purple dress that's riding up her thighs and revealing smooth flawless skin like maybe she is an angel. A group of men are carrying her, struggling to get her to the top. I have never seen the woman before, or any of the men, but I think she is just so pretty even Sbho doesn't compare. She has long shiny hair that isn't really hers but it still looks good, nice skin, white teeth, and it seems like she eats very well. Her breasts are the only thing that is wrong with her body - nobody needs breasts that are each the size of ugly baby;s head." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo
27. "We just eat a lot of guavas because its the only way to kill our hunger, and when it comes to defecating, we get in so much pain it becomes an almost impossible task, like you are trying to give birth to a country." ~ NoViolet Bulawayo

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