45 Quotes by NoViolet Bulawayo

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.

The devil is a woman in a purple dress that's riding up her thighs and revealing smooth flawless skin like maybe she is an angel.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky. They flee their own wretched land so their hunger may be pacified in foreign lands, their tears wiped away in strange lands, the wounds of their despair bandaged in faraway lands, their blistered prayers muttered in the darkness of queer lands.

If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.

We're hungry but we're together and we're at home and everything is sweeter than dessert.

He doesn't tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I've heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise.

In America we saw more food than we had seen in all our lives and we were so happy we rummaged through the dustbins of our souls to retrieve the stained, broken pieces of God.