And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

The truth has become an insult.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise

She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.

We never actively remember death, ' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

Whenever i live my Life I Live with honour

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.