Tayeb Salih Quotes

They are my responsibility, and one of the reasons that brings me here each year is to see how they are getting on.

It is a chaotic house, built without method, and has acquired its present form over many years: many differently-sized rooms, some built up against one another at different times, either because they were needed or because my grandfather found himself with some spare money for which he had no other use.

I told him that Mustafa Sa'eed was a lie. 'Do you want to know the truth about Mustafa Sa'eed?' I said to him with another drunken laugh.

I had put out the candles and locked the door of the room and that of the courtyard without doing anything. Another fire would not have done any good.