Quotes from book
What the Day Owes the Night

Name: What the Day Owes the Night
Author: Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra Original title Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (French, 2010)

What the Day Owes the Night is a novel by Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra. It was originally written and published in French. The English translation was produced by Frank Wynne, and published by Heinemann in 2010.

“Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

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