"Sweetness in the Belly" Quotes
"Sweetness in the Belly" follows Lilly, a British woman raised in Ethiopia, as she navigates love, loss, and identity amid political turmoil and displacement.
fiction | 338 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The trick is to find a way to keep living.
I'm not sure it's possible to love another person if you don't first have a sense of belonging to yourself.
It's possible to feel both joy and sorrow at the same time.
I suppose I just assumed that love would be like a light that never went out.
Sometimes we have to make our own family.
We're all of us haunted and haunting.
There are things we can forget and things we can't. Some things we must never forget.
It's astonishing what the human spirit can endure.
The world is full of stories and sometimes they permit themselves to be told.
To have a homeland is not a necessity, but an aspiration.
