Quotes by : Teju Cole

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

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

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....

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called....

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....

There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was....

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