# Quote — Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

> What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else.

- Author: [Maaza Mengiste](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste.md)
- Book: [The Shadow King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maaza_Mengiste#Shadow_King_(2019)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/maaza-mengiste/the-shadow-king/what-is-lost

## 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.

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

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

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