It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned. - Nadifa Mohamed

The place has enchantment, mystery, it moves backward and forward in time with every turn of the feet; it is fitting that it lies beside an ocean over which its soul can breathe, rather than being hemmed in by mountains like a jinn in a bottle.

....I stand and claim my innocence so they have to finish me to protect themselves. Their lies and evil end with me.

This shop is my life, and if I had just sold it in '48 what good would that have done? A widow, a spinster, and a little girl, jumping from home to home and job to job.