All the images and impressions and countries and continents he'd vised had been erased. What you don't remember never happened. - Damon Galgut

Innovation and change: it was one of her key phrases, a mantra she liked to repeat. But it was empty. Ruth Ngema would go to great lengths to avoid any innovation or change, because who knew what might follow on?"

The first time I saw him I thought, he won't last.

So for a while I had two lives: one that was empty and adrift, in the hospital by day and another that was illicit and intense, by the side of the road at night. The one had nothing to do with the other.