Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve
… the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.
…. does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?
Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people!
Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial
… cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.
Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is infested with an aggressive strain of such invisible germs.
Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food chain.
He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.
I appreciate the gesture, but you don’t have to undress in order to apologize
Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.
Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to isolate it from the rest of the junk. I know how to do both.
The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes
An Abel Muranda without his wife and children would be a wandering bachelor without any dignity. He would sleep in caves and feed on wild berries. But no matter how lonely life became, he would never come to a place like this
Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser’s padlock.
Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.
As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.