"They had smashed his camera and locked him up like a black and he hated them and their government and everything they…"

"A house and a car. Eventually some sort of decent position. Rehabilitated."

"Sometimes he found himself swimming underwater beneath them, his tough-skinned body grazing past like a shark."

"And so when we left we had among us only a child here and there who was raw-faced and blue-eyed; we were coloured nei…"

"He could not say to this woman, That’s not what I read."

"He is not listening: the swell and clash, the tympani of conflict, the brass of glory, the chords of thrilling resolv…"

"The boy would perhaps become an accountant, certainly something one rung above his father, because each generation mu…"

"A mother and father must never make any move that might jeopardize the opportunities they themselves have not been ab…"

"The curtains are open upon the dark, at night. When he gets up in the morning he closes them. By now they are on fire…"

"We were tired, so tired. My first-born brother and the man had to lift our grandfather from stone to stone where we f…"