“To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.” “Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.” “My mother had to leave many traditions behind and the more time passed, the more they mattered to her.”

“I wondered why God created so many varieties of faiths in the world if He intended all of us to worship Him in the same fashion.” “The universe had an odd sense of fairness it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.” “He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.” Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.” “A name is precious it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. I know know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.” “Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. “Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.” “No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.” If you click through and make a purchase, I’ll earn a commission, at no additional cost to you. In September 2020, Pantheon will publish Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, a work of nonfiction A recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. She has written essays and opinion pieces for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Nation, the Guardian, and the New York Times. Her novels include The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and The Other Americans, which was a national bestseller. She was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. Like every good writer Laila Lalami made a number of memorable quotes, here are some of our favorites: Here you will find Laila Lalami’s top 10 popular and famous quotes. At Australia Unwrapped we believe every book has at least one quotable line, and our mission is to find them all. Laila Lalami, a writer whom I am guessing you love? Here are our 10 best Laila Lalami quotes for you to enjoy.

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