4 Quotes & Sayings By Nadifa Mohamed

Nadifa Mohamed was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She studied law at Deakin University and was called to the Victorian Bar in 2010; she has now moved to the UK and is writing full-time. She currently lives in London and is working on her first novel.

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I stood in bars, clothed but naked, looking from their eyes to my feet and back again. Still there was the longing to contend with: the heavy, bloody, chemical urge to consume another body and spit out its bones in a new child. How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could so easily destroy you? Nadifa Mohamed
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As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight. Nadifa Mohamed
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Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say. Nadifa Mohamed