"The first time I saw him I thought, he won't last."

"Innovation and change: it was one of her key phrases, a mantra she liked to repeat. But it was empty. Ruth Ngema woul…"

"He knows that he is beautiful and somehow this makes him ugly."

"All the images and impressions and countries and continents he'd vised had been erased. What you don't remember never…"

"And maybe that is the true reason for this journey, by shedding all the ballast of the familiar life they are each tr…"

"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you…"

"The moment the metal box speaks her name, she knows it’s happened. She’s been in a tense, headachy mood all day, almo…"

"They park in the driveway under the awning, with its beautiful green and purple and orange stripes. Beyond it, a dior…"

"[Ockie] imagines himself one of his Voortrekker ancestors, rolling slowly into the interior in an ox-wagon. Yes, ther…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"