Quotes by Elspeth Huxley

“Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone-and no one minds.”

“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.”

this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstanttial as a cloud, as iridescent as a dragon-fly and as innocent as the heart of a rose.

...thats the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories dont end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didnt do, sometimes live on.