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"Even as an entry-level associate, I enjoyed what I did. I was experiencing what it meant to love what you do."

"Die man is mooier as die sonsondergang. Nee. Hy is mooier as die sonsondergang, die jacuzzi én die bloue see."

"Of course, on a greater soul-journey level, he is teaching me about abandonment, forcing me to deal with my deep childhood terror of facing the idea of 'the end' – of mortality. Of sharing my life with another. He is also training me to be alone. I am teaching him about communication, trust and forgiveness."

"Stupidly, most of us signed with excited, even feverish, anticipation. We were going to war, and we were going to kick the enemy’s collective arse. We’d been fed an undiluted diet of Swart Gevaar and Rooi Gevaar propaganda over the last few days and we were, we believed, invincible."

"Tedeschi en Calhoun het hul navorsing onder ander getraumatiseerde groepe herhaal. Hulle het met oorlogsveterane, kankeroorlewendes en oudgevangenes gesels. Waar hulle posttraumatiese stresversteuring verwag het, het hulle keer op keer groei aangetref. In 1996 het hulle hul 'posttraumatic growth inventory' gepubliseer, ’n databasis van bevindings wat só omvattend was dat niemand dit meer kon ignoreer nie."

"Die vingerhoed was ’n verrassing, en ek het sedertdien al ’n paar keer ’n soldaat in my geestesoog op een van daai klipmure sien sit, doenig met ’n bietjie naaldwerk voor ’n volgende inspeksie." Lees ’n uittreksel uit Tom Dreyer se bundel. Hier is ook inligting omtrent die boekbekendstelling by Protea-boekwinkel op Saterdagoggend 6 Augustus in Stellenbosch.

"Are new coffee shops, restaurants or shopping malls springing up in the area? Are homes being renovated? All these subtle signs of life will tell you that people are moving into the area and investing in it, believing it is the new place to be."

"I certainly didn’t need a fancy brand of clothes or an expensive handbag. That realisation never left me. I had never been a status-conscious shopper, but my buying patterns changed permanently after that Everest trip. My philosophy is that I don’t need much, but I’ll spend money on what’s important."

"I think that one of the negative consequences of affirmative action has been that we have tiptoed around this issue of performance. And it does a disservice to ambitious, competent, professional, intelligent hard-working black people, who want to be rewarded for who they are and what they do."

"My hart breek. Bart kyk vir my in die truspieëltjie. Al my kindervrese is terug. Hoe gaan ek my en die seuns beskerm? Bart het geen selfbeheersing nie."

"The first time I broke bad news to a real, live family it went horribly. If it were an OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) station, I would have failed."

"Die suidoos slaag daarin om al die spinnerakke uit Elisabet se kop te waai. Dae nadat Johannes haar die volgende oggend nog bietjie stug plegtig met die hand gegroet het, voel sy lig en vry. Skoon gewoed deur ’n woeste binnewind."

"Ek hoop dat hierdie mense se sigbaarheid ander sal inspireer om kasdeure oop te skop. Makliker gesê as gedaan, ek weet."

"Since the first democratic elections in 1994, no party has held on to the third position in consecutive elections. Smaller political parties have always alternated in this position. Because it has claimed this spot, the only way up for the EFF must be to depose the DA and become the official opposition."

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"You might not be able to stop the event from happening, but you can avoid being blindsided by it."

"A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the white man is a celebration of multiculturalism and a plea for white people to do some ‘second line dancing’ for a change."

"The story brings good memories about Sister Aidan, because if you go to Duncan Village and ask the old ladies about Sister Aidan, everyone smiles you know, they just smile because they remember the beautiful person she was …"

"For much of the apartheid period — characterised by that special type of colonialism imposed from within — the German shepherd was, statistically speaking, the nation’s most popular breed. The white public wanted large, aggressive dogs to allay widespread fears of a black deluge overwhelming them."

"Ek is nie ’n kenner van die verskillende psigiatriese siektes nie, maar ek is ’n ma en ek het ’n kenner geword om my dogter te kan verstaan. Sy vertel graag dat ek voor haar weet wanneer sy ’n maniese episode gaan hê."