6 Quotes by Dalene Matthee

But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.

If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.

Afrika soek nie wit of swart kinders nie, Araminta, Afrika soek sy goeie kinders. Moenie vir my sê dis ‘n idealistiese droom nie. Die droogte breek wanneer ons droom dat die reën sal kom; nie solank ons aan die droogte glo nie.

...unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed.

Maar sy kyk nie meer nuus nie. Sy lees ook nie meer koerant nie. Reg en verkeerd, waarheid en leuen is strome wat deurmekaar geloop het in een rivier, jy kry dit nie meer uitmekaar geskep nie.

The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.