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

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?

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

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.

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.

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen

Fruitfulness is impossible without action.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

I’m prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.