Quotes by : Damon Galgut

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.....

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded....

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this....

There are many monsters, oh, many!

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their....

I am happy to see you, Maso

Race and class were a kind of destiny very little could dent them. Morgan himself had been decanted back....

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning....

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear....

Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory....