# Quote — Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

> He is doing as she once did, in the naïve belief that what is buried stays that way, that what is hidden will stay unseen, that what is yours will remain always in your possession. He is being foolish.

- Author: [Maaza Mengiste](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste.md)
- Book: [The Shadow King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/he-is-doing

## More from this book

> What he knows is this: there is no past, there is no "what happened", there is only the moment that unfolds into the next, dragging everything with it, constantly renewing. Everything is happening at once.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/what-he-knows.md)

> My father was always a stranger to me, he will say. I knew him through his questions, not his answers.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/my-father-was.md)

> She does not want to remember but she is here and memory is gathering bones.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/she-does-not.md)