# Quote — Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account

> I had been pushed further and further into a fate from which no escape or reprieve seemed possible. And so there came a moment when I stopped struggling, when I decided that I would cease making any more plans to return to the old days. I made up my mind to look upon the present as exactly what it was: it was all I had. (p232)

- Author: [Laila Lalami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laila-lalami.md)
- Book: [The Moor's Account](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laila-lalami/the-moors-account.md)
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## More from this book

> Somehow I had also convinced myself that my redemption could only come from some force outside of me-that if I were useful to others, they would save me. What a terrible thing to believe. I had to stop playing a part in my own misery. I had to save my own life. (p129)

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> I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it. (p8)

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> life should not be traded for gold (p87)

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