Quotes from Deon Meyer

Hebzucht heeft geen kleur.

We remember the moments of fear, loss and humiliation most vividly.

Ik wilde haar weer horen lachen. Sterker nog: ik wilde de lach uit haar tevoorschijn toveren, ik wilde de reden zijn waarom die melodie gespeeld werd, want het was de klank van geluk, van tevredenheid, van alles wat goed en mooi was in de wereld.

Long story short, I have always been fascinated by how we absolutely need to be in a relationship. I mean, it consumes us, that need, that terrible need to be loved, to be with someone.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain for ever a child. For what is the value of a human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Wilt u een gorilla of een onzichtbare?

En wat is dit dié? Duitse owner van 'n boereplaas met 'n Franse naam waar 'n Brit gekidnap is. Fucking United Nations of Crime, dis wat ons nou word.

Years later I realised he left sex out when he came to Maslow's list of physiological needs. I don't blame him.

We are starting a sanctuary, a community that will have justice, wisdom, moderation and courage…" "It's from Plato," said Pa. "From The Republic ." "I see," said Hennie, in a tone that revealed he had no idea what Pa was talking about.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Dan begin jy voel soos die hond wat die bus gevang het. Ongemaklik. Want dié groot, vet bus loop skynbaar nie net na bestemming Bevordering nie. Daar is ander plekke waar hy ook kan stop.

He ought to be in the minuet of life, but he was still fucking around in the adagio.

Egan. Watse naam is Egan? Hoe kom jy op daai een? Hoe kyk jy vir hierdie baby, jou laaitie, en sê, 'nooit, dis 'n Egan'. Klink soos die naam van 'n alien in die Spielberg movie. Fokken Egan... Egan the Vegan

Einstein said, "I believe in Spinoza's god, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a god who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.

Academy. And what a narcotic the drug of positive feedback

I must admit that I remain endlessly fascinated by the small crossroads of life, the forks in the road, seldom indicated, rarely a road sign. Only visible in retrospect.

aan my twee geskenke gegee: rigting en selfrespek.

That's why people become racists, and sexists and terrorists. Because we don't talk, we don't listen, because we don't know, we live only in our own heads.

But it felt as though someone were watching us.

Hennie read the last lines of the pamphlet: "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" "That's Emma Lazarus," said Pa. "Is that her up there?" asked Hennie and pointed at Melinda Swanevelder in the Volvo. Pa said no, Emma Lazarus was an American poet. She wrote the poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty. The woman in the cab is Melinda Swanevelder. We found her in Vanderkloof.

Who's going to rob a black man on a bicycle?

You had to suffer first, before you could connect, before you could see we are all just human, irrespective of race, colour, creed.

he was white in a world of affirmative action. Basically fucked.

Want die wêreld en die lewe ís magies, Nero. Op 'n manier. Want ons kan planne maak soos ons wil, maar die heelal steur hom nie daaraan nie.