The truth has become an insult.

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.

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.

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 business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it.

Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite.

I had to brainwash myself, like what I was doing was going to be really, really good, and then just accept whatever happened.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.