Quotes from An Instant in the Wind - André Brink
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Page 12 "This no one can take away from us, not even ourselves."

Page 14 "Such a long journey ahead for you and me. Oh God, oh God."

Page 15 "Who are you? Who am I?"

Page 15 "It is not a question of imagination, but of faith."

Page 20 "flesh is much too uncertain and unpredictable for your scientific precision; too indecent and too terrible." (Elizabeth)

Page 39 "Don’t you think people are landscapes too to be explored" (Elizabeth to Larsson)

Page 41 "What’s wrong with a woman anyway? Is it something to be ashamed of?" (Elizabeth)

Page 45 "But there is still the child. For his sake I must get back to the Cape." (Elizabeth)

Page 49 "Is that me? ... And if it’s me - who am I?" (Elizabeth)

Page 51 "Amongst the trees of the garden I hid myself because I was naked" (Elizabeth)

Page 56 "You’re too white for the truth" (Adam)

Page 59 "knowledge of death, that’s the inevitable start"

Page 65 "But this once I refuse to obey them, I shall break free. This once I’ll trek into my own wilderness" (Elizabeth)

Page 68 "One is always betrayed." (Thoughts of Elizabeth)

Page 68 "Forgive me, I’m only a woman. You [God] made me one" (Elizabeth - after she accuses God in her dream to have taken her child away from her.)

Page 68 "It’s not a cruel land, just apathetic. It takes from you what is redundant: wagon and oxen, guide and husband and child, camp and shelter, conversation, help, imagined security, preparation and presumption, clothes. Whittling you down to yourself." (Elizabeth)

Page 84 "And civilization is history?" (Adam)

Page 91 "I’m a human being. And I want to live with people again." (Adam)

Page 108 "She wants to ask: Who are you?" (Elizabeth)

Page 109 "World provisionally without end."

Page 134 "those two wagons....planting the beacons of civilization on their destructive way."

Page 146 "Every time, in going on, there is something of the first venture: a question of faith."

Page 158 "I have traveled farther into myself and nothing can ever be quite the same again" (Elizabeth)

Page 178 "I love you, here is my life, I’m holding yours in security: here is my hand, take it, let’s jump into the abyss, whatever happens; even if we fall to death, let it at least be hand in hand."

Page 206 "God is the emptiness of an endless sky."

Page 248 "The only certainty, here, was the moist sounds of the sea."

Page 249 "this secret unexplored interior" (Elizabeth)

Page 249 "Who are you? I have never known anyone better, yet you are altogether strange to me."

Page 250 "One has to learn to live with betrayal"

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