Have You Read This

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

“If you could read the secret history of your enemies, you should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“And who decided which people wore the striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?”

“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

“Reading—an endless journey; a long, indeed never-ending journey that made one more temperate as well as more loving and kind.”

A striking, confrontational and unmistakably brilliant exhibit of South African theatre.

“Practise losing small things, so you’re better at losing bigger things.”

“There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen.”