Kiran Millwood Hargrave · 228 pages
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“Each of us carries the map of our lives on our skin, in the way we walk, even in the way we grow.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
“The threads of problems dangled in front of me, and I tried to think of a way to weave them into a solution. I”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
“leaves were like lace, criss-crossing blackly over tangles of dead branches. I”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
“overgrown fields, obviously abandoned. We must be getting close to the next village, which was just as well. The sun was approaching the horizon, and the constant battle with the wind was exhausting for us as well as the horses. Fierce”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
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“Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt
To slacken virtue and abate her edge
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.”
― John Milton, quote from Paradise Regained
“MUSHAKABVU, I may be in a tough spot, but I am more worried about you. I have never experienced anything close to a sense of kinship with any of my clients, let alone those I have never met. However, the world you sent me to investigate has inspired a selfless concern that is uncommon between strangers. I hope you are just a curious, distant observer in the affairs I have been probing ... But something tells me this hope was frustrated long before our acquaintance.”
― Taona Dumisani Chiveneko, quote from The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
“It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.
It sounded like a revolution.
It sounded like hope.”
― Alex Scarrow, quote from The Eternal War
“Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching disintegration of his society and the destruction of ‘his beliefs. Here especially it seemed that the evil that comes with sudden change would far outweigh the good. While I was with the Arabs I wished only to live as they lived and, now that I have left them, I would gladly think that nothing in their lives was altered by my coming. Regretfully, however, I realize that the maps I made helped others, with more material aims, to visit and corrupt a people whose spirit once lit the desert like a flame.”
― Wilfred Thesiger, quote from Arabian Sands
“I would take my beloved Najma to my country so that she would taste secularism and true freedom. How wrong I was! How wrong we all were! Unfortunately, you truly miss what you have had all along and taken for granted (in this case the spirit of secularism and true freedom) only once you actually lose it.”
― Vivek Pereira, quote from Indians in Pakistan
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