Nervous Conditions Quotes - Chapter One

"I was not sorry when my brother died"
"my story is not after all about death, but about my escape"
"where the women washed the river was shallow"
"the women liked their spot"
"this was the walk that my brother detested!"
"Nhamo would lift our branch of the family out of the squalor in which we were living. Thus my uncle's gesture was oceanic"
"Nhamo was forced once a year to return"
"all this poverty began to offend him...to embarrass him"
"he would drink sweet blak tea while he read his books and we went about our chores"
"he had the power, the authority to make us do things for him"
"I disliked our brother. I felt guilty about it"
"Next time, I thought naively, Nhamo will catch it himself"
"He was doing no more than behave, perhaps extremely, in the expected manner"
"women in my family were not considered a priority"
"In those days I felt the injustice of the situation every time I thought about it"
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	Created by Becky Muggeridge about 10 years ago