Top 6 Quotes by Maaza Mengiste

We must not be anything other than what we are.

Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

Waiting, Mercy, Gods Will

The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.

Love Is, Dies

Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

War, Thinking, Government

Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company

The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.

Thinking, Land, Rich

Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

Book, Reader

Maaza Mengiste Quotes