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‘Evariste was the nightwatchman. He and I were alone in the house in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, when the killing started.’

Tadpoles

‘It was a harsh and brutal puberty: the tiny creatures began to fret, as if an inner sense had forewarned them of the torment in store’

‘To create is to let take over something which did not exist before and is therefore new.’

‘I thought so highly of Vidia’s writing and felt his presence on our list to be so important that I simply could not allow myself not to like him.’

‘I naively believed as a child that I would always have a father present, and the truth seems to be that I always will.’