51 Quotes by Aminatta Forna

Hitler, Pol Pot. Funny, isn’t it? How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world? I wonder why that is.’ And Kai had responded, ‘Because they’re mad.’ She had dug a sharp elbow into his ribs. Then she shook her head. ‘But they do, don’t they? They do change the world.

I sought solace in the very thing that caused me pain.

Love is a gamble, the stake is the human heart. The lover holds his or her cards close, lays them out one at a time and watches each move of the other player. To whom do you go first? This is the ‘tell’ of love. When a thing happens, be it good or bad, when you pick up the telephone or push through a crowd, who is it you most want to reach?

Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.

Adrian hears the echo of his own thoughts of earlier in the day, only differently stated. The silent lie.

My family's a ruling family.