Quotes by : Teju Cole

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled....

He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political....

Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even....

I am a novelist, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good....

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different....

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences.

The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant....

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers....

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection,....