Marlene Van Niekerk Quotes

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

Nature is subtle and complex.

..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.