Maxine Case

w:Maxine Case(born January 17, 1976, in Cape Town) is a South African novelist, and short story writer. Her debut novel, All We Have Left Unsaid, (Kwela Books, 2006) won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region and was the joint winner of the Herman Charles Bosman Prize 2007.

Quotes

• It has been said that if you want the truth you should ask someone with Asperger syndrome. The only way he could understand the pain he had caused was to relate it back to something that might have made him feel inadequate and inferior. This was the only way he could comprehend what effect his words had had on her. As a consequence of this incident he became very careful about what he said in the future.

• It is easy for the NT partner to forget that her partner may not know what it is he should say or how he should respond to a given situation.

• They want their partners to intuitively know and understand what is required of them. They want to feel their partners understand their needs and desires without having to spell it out to them time after time.