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Top 15 Dinaw Mengestu Quotes (2025 Update)

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “History does influence our lives – every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.”

1. “History does influence our lives – every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears is very much about America – it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.”

2. “The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears is very much about America – it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “It’s hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It’s nice to think there’s a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that’s not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.”

3. “It’s hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It’s nice to think there’s a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that’s not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.”

4. “We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.”

5. “What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.”

6. “Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.”

7. “I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.”

8. “Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “Reality had settled in, and they’re both still waiting to recover.”

9. “Reality had settled in, and they’re both still waiting to recover.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “You will never disappear,” I said. “Even if it may feel like you have at some point. We’re going to remain a part of each other’s lives for much longer than we think. There’s nothing we can say or do to change that.”

10. “You will never disappear,” I said. “Even if it may feel like you have at some point. We’re going to remain a part of each other’s lives for much longer than we think. There’s nothing we can say or do to change that.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “What I didn’t know until then was that loving someone and feeling loved in return was the best exercise for the heart, the strength training needed to do more than simply make it through life.”

11. “What I didn’t know until then was that loving someone and feeling loved in return was the best exercise for the heart, the strength training needed to do more than simply make it through life.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.”

12. “There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “You see, at the beginning we weren’t fighters. We weren’t yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.”

13. “You see, at the beginning we weren’t fighters. We weren’t yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.”

14. “At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.”

15. “The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “There’s something physical that changes with a person’s appearance when they suddenly open up to you.”

16. “There’s something physical that changes with a person’s appearance when they suddenly open up to you.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “I wanted to ask him if that was part of the plan, but I knew he would have said yes. The plan was to make war; anything that followed was part of it.”

17. “I wanted to ask him if that was part of the plan, but I knew he would have said yes. The plan was to make war; anything that followed was part of it.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu Quote: “No one will ever have loved each other more than we did.”

18. “No one will ever have loved each other more than we did.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

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