Quotes by : Teju Cole

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

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant....

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

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

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....

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

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

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